anakin-padme-1 We have to ensure that people are meeting their potential.

anakin-padme-2 And exceeding it?

anakin-padme-3 No one exceeds his potential.

anakin-padme-4 lf he did?

anakin-padme-3 lt simply means that we didn’t accurately gauge his potential in the first place

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      Was gonna say this makes zero sense. IQ tests are extremely dubious at best even when personalized to the individuals cultural norms and mostly revolve around learned cultural behaviors and pattern recognitions that stem from those cultural behaviors. An embryo has not yet learned anything how could it have an IQ.

      IQ tests were an absolute mistake to the point that even the dude who invented them tried to get people to stop using them.

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        Lol if the fascist eugenicists who are making this didn’t think IQ was a function of how much aryan blood you have in your veins they would have never made this garbage. Zero chance this isn’t descended from epstein’s grants for geneticists making eugenics apps. Did you hear about the eugenics dating app?

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    Among the firm’s senior staff is the academic Jonathan Anomaly, who has caused controversy after defending what he describes as “liberal eugenics”.

    The guy defending eugenics goes by “Mr. Anomaly”? Why do these stories always feature silly details like that

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    makes zero sense, they would need a dataset showing every detail of an embryo and correlating it to IQ later in life, no such thing exists, period

    eugenicist designer babies make far more sense with our current technology, reasonably you could measure what their eye color or hair color would be and abort if you didnt like it (wtf lol imagine putting your body through all of this just to get a baby like this)

    Managers boasted their methods could produce a gain of more than six IQ points.

    bro what a normal person can experience iq swings on a particular day greater than this just by not sleeping well

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      I’ve ran into way too many techbro dipshits in the past that wanted to build the Torment Nexus from Gattaca. I’m not kidding. They thought the society was great as it was.

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        I’ll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you’re young okay

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          I understand.

          The people I argued with about it were in their thirties and were well educated so they don’t get a pass.

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        The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC’s specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?

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          I too am hazy about a move I haven’t watched in 10+years.

          Did he have a heart problem or did his genes make it more statistically likely to have/develop a heart problem?

          (The internet seems to think that its the gene stastics things and not actually having been diagnosed with a heart defect.)

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          Wasn’t he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?

          He sure was. He didn’t fight the system; he just wanted to get his life achievement (while potentially endangering that mission after blast-off).

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    galaxy-brain : “What if you could identify your baby’s IQ and abort it if it’s below Mensa levels?”

    honk-enraged WHAT IF I COULD JUST AFFORD TO HAVE MY CHILD AND TAKE IT TO A DOCTOR???

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    cure-for-fascism “Well, considering the amount of money you’ve given us to provide this ‘service’, it’s safe to say you don’t need to worry about your child having an excessive IQ… In particular, I’d say there is about 66% chance of it being between 85 and 115.”

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    IQ is just a measurement of how well integrated an individual is to western hegemony.

    It’s seen as a D&D style stat by calipers enjoyers because of course it is. big-yud