There are a lot of open questions with regards to intelligence manipulation, both scientific and ethical. We're like a child accessing the internet for the first time. We don't know what it is, how it works, and we've been told there are things we should never do.
Genetic engineering of humans is likely to be an extremely powerful tool, and we aren't going to understand it until we start playing around. We've already got some cognitive baselines for other species, perhaps we can start trying to manipulate their intelligence and see what happens.
And we can try to perform 'ethical eugenics' on ourselves. Imagine having 15 or 100 embryos, and picking your favorite. If you only intended on raising 1 child in the first place, I don't see how this is wrong. It's less grey than abortion. Having sets of 'chosen' babies will give us a ton of information about our genetics, even if we don't start manipulating their genes directly.
I'm within a decade of having children, and I really hope that I can 'optimize' at least one of the multiple children I intend to have. I feel like the potential scientific progress is worth the risk.
Genetic engineering of humans is likely to be an extremely powerful tool, and we aren't going to understand it until we start playing around. We've already got some cognitive baselines for other species, perhaps we can start trying to manipulate their intelligence and see what happens.
And we can try to perform 'ethical eugenics' on ourselves. Imagine having 15 or 100 embryos, and picking your favorite. If you only intended on raising 1 child in the first place, I don't see how this is wrong. It's less grey than abortion. Having sets of 'chosen' babies will give us a ton of information about our genetics, even if we don't start manipulating their genes directly.
I'm within a decade of having children, and I really hope that I can 'optimize' at least one of the multiple children I intend to have. I feel like the potential scientific progress is worth the risk.