Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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Genetically Involved Traits
Imagine that parents could influence or design the children they have, above and beyond eliminating a few particular diseases. Does that worry you? Or does that get you excited, that we're going to have smarter, better people? I'm sceptical of the premise. As someone who was very interested in a genetically influenced traits. And was excited in the nineties possibility that we'd find the gen for this or the gen for that. But there were a number of discoveries which turned out to be false alarms.
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