anakin-padme-1 We have to ensure that people are meeting their potential.

anakin-padme-2 And exceeding it?

anakin-padme-3 No one exceeds his potential.

anakin-padme-4 lf he did?

anakin-padme-3 lt simply means that we didn’t accurately gauge his potential in the first place

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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    Welcome to pseudoscienctific eugenics. The baby has weak, human skin. Let’s graft it with the scales of a Komodo dragon. Oh no, it will have shit immune system. Let’s pair it with the immune system of a bat. What about fireproof body? Let’s give him a slime-secreting gland. Teeths broke? Let’s put in the tooth genes of a shark. What about water breathing? Hybrid lungs. Oh no, his puny human eyes can’t see colors? Let’s give him the compound eyes of a mantis shrimp.

    But now he’s an entire different race? Let’s call him a Furyan.

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      Was gonna say this makes zero sense. IQ tests are extremely dubious at best even when personalized to the individuals cultural norms and mostly revolve around learned cultural behaviors and pattern recognitions that stem from those cultural behaviors. An embryo has not yet learned anything how could it have an IQ.

      IQ tests were an absolute mistake to the point that even the dude who invented them tried to get people to stop using them.

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        Lol if the fascist eugenicists who are making this didn’t think IQ was a function of how much aryan blood you have in your veins they would have never made this garbage. Zero chance this isn’t descended from epstein’s grants for geneticists making eugenics apps. Did you hear about the eugenics dating app?

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    galaxy-brain : “What if you could identify your baby’s IQ and abort it if it’s below Mensa levels?”

    honk-enraged WHAT IF I COULD JUST AFFORD TO HAVE MY CHILD AND TAKE IT TO A DOCTOR???

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    honestly i almost respect the grift, because there’s literally no way of getting reliable results and that’s a lot of money to charge gullible race realists

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    Among the firm’s senior staff is the academic Jonathan Anomaly, who has caused controversy after defending what he describes as “liberal eugenics”.

    The guy defending eugenics goes by “Mr. Anomaly”? Why do these stories always feature silly details like that