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Bryan Caplan: Can We Make Freedom and Democracy Compatible?

From the New World

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The Importance of Genetic Editing in the Future

The odds that if we let that right now we're excluding the immigrant that would have gone and cracked life extension. I think that's got to be pretty high just because there's so many smart people in India and China. This is hard to quantify because it depends on a bunch of different timelines. The West is particularly bad on this technology, but even accounting for locking up Ho-Jang Kui, which was really based on kind of like foreign pressure and PR necessities. And who's that China is still a much, much healthier place for genetic editing than the US.

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