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by em3rgent0rdr 3068 days ago
> "(1) Evolution has been pretty effective to this point"

to this point. Yet it doesn't look like it will be effective from this point onwards, considering that the traits that will likely be useful to the next era of humanity are not the same traits natural selection chooses.

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Given that more educated, career-focused humans have less kids than the less educated.[1] I find it somewhat welcome that we can turn natural selection around, towards those traits we need more to move forward as a species.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence