Watch the movie Gattaca, there's your answer. Basically a two-class society between richt edited people and poor natural-born people who would be even more disadvantaged.
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If we could magically snap our collective fingers and everyone become smarter? Sure, probably good for society.
But what's definitely incredibly toxic for society would be to pay-wall these sort of advances to the rich, creating a semi-human racial offshoot being constantly told that they are better, smarter and wealthier than any other human. Only new flavors of racism, apartheid and ethnic cleanings follow.
I, for one, welcome our new super-intelligent rodent overlords
The news industry would collapse overnight as their entire customer base suddenly realizes "Hey! This is all just alarmist BS and straight up lies! Look at this, the headline isn't even CLOSE to depicting the reality of the situation. You'd have to be a complete fucking idiot to fall for this crap!"
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New technology will not solve issues unless we have the political will to ensure it will help everyone.
Such technology is worthless or potentially actively harmful until we deal with the social disasters currently occurring.
Kind of whataboutism from my side... But won't healthy (and enough) food for kids, education and opportunities provide an IQ boost? I guess we could do a noticeable increase if we wanted...
IQ tests are a scam and are rooted in Eugenics. They are also heavily skewed when the takers are poor and malnourished.
People arent born "stupid". They lack access to health and education.
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If everyone gains 30 IQ points, nobody gains 30 IQ points. That's how indices work.
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way fewer kids till wealth inequality was reduced to reasonable levels.
We think we'll turn ourselves into superhumans with gene editing, and worry about the societal implications and potential uses for evil.
But, the world is dumb. I suspect we'll actually turn ourselves into figurative pugs or Gros Michel bananas given the chance.
Edit: Which is also really bad.
This widespread, and seemingly sole focus on genes is ignorant.
Flowers for Algernon
I honestly think that indifference and lack of learning is holding us further back than biology is. But maybe we'd have somewhat of an easier time if critical thinking came easier to people.
Would this be the start of the eugenics wars?
what could possibly go wrong
Curing neurological diseases isn't the same as bumping up IQ.
But 30 points is fucking huge...
Like, that's the difference between dead center "average" and a legal intellectual disability.
Because 30 points is where communication becomes hindered.
So if everyone got a 30 point bump, it would change absolutely nothing. The people being manipulated would be 30 points smarter, but so would the people manipulating them.
IQ just isn't a big deal, that's why they dropped the threshold for "genius" from 160 to 120 and added things like motivation and drive.
What really matters is the difference between people
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