"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> You appear to be replying more to your post than to mine. :)
Ha.
> I am arguing in favor of selecting out a representative stock of humans
> that eschew enhancement. Not necessarily just the Amish and Mennonites.
> Maybe we should have a lottery for people who want to enhance. Maybe we
> should have a lottery for people who will be forced to not be enhanced.
>
> A genetic Ponzi scheme is what I was talking about--too obliquely, it
> would seem. Hey, if some steroids are good, more must be better, right?
Hmmm, well, I think some passive sampling should come up with
statistically significant data, by comparing, say, offspring of
residents of silicon valley, redmond, and other high tech havens with
pennsylvania dutch country and other areas of high concentration of
primitivists.
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