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The Students · July 22 · 55 min

My Gene-Selected Daughter

Rachel Wallis is pregnant with her highest-IQ embryo, with a 99.99th percentile polygenic IQ score. She and Wolf Tivy discuss what this means, and how in the 20th century our concept of "humanity" narrowed into an ideological straitjacket. 0:00 — Intro 1:17 — How we selected the embryo 5:04 — What do these predictors actually mean? 12:53 — Financial costs and benefits 17:16 — Cultivating virtue 22:31 — Where is this going for future generations? 24:48 — Virtue and courage 28:47 — Overcoming the “humanitarian” straitjacket 34:00 — Transcendent humanism died in the war 44:04 — The silicon ubermensch 48:30 — “The choice between death or change” 52:27 — Investing in the next generation

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Rachel Wallis is pregnant with her highest-IQ embryo, with a 99.99th percentile polygenic IQ score. She and Wolf Tivy discuss what this means, and how in the 20th century our concept of "humanity" narrowed into an ideological straitjacket.

0:00 — Intro

1:17 — How we selected the embryo

5:04 — What do these predictors actually mean?

12:53 — Financial costs and benefits

17:16 — Cultivating virtue

22:31 — Where is this going for future generations?

24:48 — Virtue and courage

28:47 — Overcoming the “humanitarian” straitjacket

34:00 — Transcendent humanism died in the war

44:04 — The silicon ubermensch  

48:30 — “The choice between death or change”

52:27 — Investing in the next generation

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