[ExI] Limits of human modification

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 17:35:28 UTC 2015


On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:39 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki
> <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Do all economists agree that forcing people to have stupider children
>>> than
>>> what modern medicine would allow them to have will result in
>>> a positive long term impact on net GDP per capita
>>> ?
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>> I truly do not understand the intent of this question.
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> Which word didn't you understand?
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### I am not getting the relevance of the question to the thread.

In the thread I am suggesting that gene mods can and should contribute
to increasing GDP, and among others I give IQ-boost as an example of a
mod that should increase GDP.

You ask whether economists think that making people stupider increases GDP.

What's the connection? Do you seriously think that there are many
economists holding that position?

Rafał




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