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    1 year ago

    This is definitely a perspective I hadn’t considered before. Even from a straight-up “genetic fitness” perspective, specifically selecting or engineering traits we think are always useful would end up being a little like a mild form of inbreeding, wouldn’t it? In the same way that “pure” dog breeds almost inevitably end up with specific crippling health problems while mutts are relatively healthy overall.