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Genetics with Razib Kahn

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Genetic Testing Is Going to Shape Our Society

As we start to learn more about the genetic drivers of, say, you nowoknow, i think there's going to be a very big temptation to use genetic science to sorof improve the human condit. But it also seems to me that there is a lot of potential for those kinds of genetic engineering projects or less charitably eugenic projects. And if those people disproportionately contribute to like economic growth or inovation or what have you, that could end up having some very bad effects for humanity.

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