Examples of epilogenics
1) Selecting an embryo forlower disease risk, higher intelligence, or some other traitgoodforboth the individual and society
2) Gene editing forthe purposes listed above
3) Choosing an attractive spouse
Examples of things that are not epilogenics
4) State-sponsored sterilization of people deemed “unfit”
5) Rules against marriage of family members such a siblings and cousins
6) Things people think of as eugenics even though they are often bad forgenes (i.e. genocide)
1 with the qualification of “good for… society” is just 4) with extra steps. 2) is just 1).
For 3), unless everyone you are dating never wears makeup/grooms themselves in any way, you probably aren’t looking at much genetic influence. You are probably instead just selecting for socioeconomic bracket, which is totally not what any of this is about, right?
For 5), is the implication is that the OP thinks anti-incest laws are eugenics and therefore bad and therefore should be abolished???
6 Aella definitely googled “things that are bad for genes” with voice to text, got back “regular washing” and took that to heart
Other:
I didn’t know the “eu” in “eugenics” came from greek.
Now I’m thinking about that whole “eudaimonia” thing from a while back. Every time it pops up in my head I think “Eudaimon now dog!” I wonder how YTMND is doing these days.
I didn’t know the “eu” in “eugenics” came from greek.
Further fun facts: Eugene (the name) is greek for noble born, but since like most people we did away with nobles a long time ago now eugenic just means to have good manners, so when the modern term ‘eugenics’ came to Greece it was regreekified into eugonics (ευγονική).
What’s “that whole eudaimonia thing from a while back”? (I’m familiar with the concept of eudaimonia in general, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to)
I was making a vague reference to that because I only had a vague recollection of a sneerclub discussion involving “eudaimonia”. Looked it up, I don’t think there was some major thing that happened. Rats use the word “eudaimonia” a lot, that seems to be pretty much it.
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Examples of epilogenics 1) Selecting an embryo for lower disease risk, higher intelligence, or some other trait good for both the individual and society 2) Gene editing for the purposes listed above 3) Choosing an attractive spouse Examples of things that are not epilogenics 4) State-sponsored sterilization of people deemed “unfit” 5) Rules against marriage of family members such a siblings and cousins 6) Things people think of as eugenics even though they are often bad for genes (i.e. genocide)Other:
Further fun facts: Eugene (the name) is greek for noble born, but since like most people we did away with nobles a long time ago now eugenic just means to have good manners, so when the modern term ‘eugenics’ came to Greece it was regreekified into eugonics (ευγονική).
It’s not that verbing nouns weirds language so much as the regreekification.
Naming the Jude Law’s character in Gattaca “Eugene” was not very subtle.
I think they’re saying that actually everyone loves Eugenics they just don’t know it yet.
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What’s “that whole eudaimonia thing from a while back”? (I’m familiar with the concept of eudaimonia in general, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to)
I was making a vague reference to that because I only had a vague recollection of a sneerclub discussion involving “eudaimonia”. Looked it up, I don’t think there was some major thing that happened. Rats use the word “eudaimonia” a lot, that seems to be pretty much it.
It might have been related to this:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wtNCs2TgtDpu3W7Ke/charities-i-would-like-to-see
Probably unrelated to the Eudaemons, the UC Santa Cruz grad students in the '70s who built hidden wearable computers to beat roulette.