Pretty sure he and others like him are not gay; If they want to engineer babies, it's for a reason...

Gay is only bad if the poors do it, of course /s

Does Thiel not have more money?

I worry more about that he is a full blown psycho.

Honestly I don't think it's any of our business. Even rich assholes are allowed to have a private life. Although with some (Musk, Trump) that private life is so fucked up it's impossible to ignore, but generally I'm totally fine with not knowing who they fuck.

It's an interesting ethical debate.

I have a hereditary condition which passes only by the X chromosome, so should I, as a man, abort a daughter? Because now the risk is too high and I've elected to simply not have children. It would be great if I could fix the single swapped base pair that would otherwise cause disfigurement and life-long health problems.

High IQ would be sure nice, but has a large number of genes involved. Not that you need a high IQ as a farmer in a low technology future.

The other issue I have is that this is an example of a recurring issue in which the tech obsessed ultra wealthy declare their plan to solve a problem for which a very straightforward policy solution already exists.

We don't need tech to extend lives or feed the hungry. We just need to remove the paywalls to existing resources.

Oh come on.

This guy couldn't even get a train to run on time.

Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel.

We have enough data points to suggest that being gay doesn't insulate you from being greedy and corrupt.

That's important, too.

I thought this was a commonly known fact. He wasn't hiding it.

I am surprised the American government is even backing them.

This is a very good reminder - thank you.

I’d just like to have to trim my nails less frequently

get outright scared

Doesn't help.

Neoliberal utopia. The wealthy elite destroying the world and forcing eugenics on the masses fly a rainbow flag

Yeah that's fiction for a reason

Give me Butlerian jihad or give me death!

Ah yes, please give me more of that sickle cell anemia.

And everyone already has the ability to pick their Soma

Shit, thanks for reminding me I'm scrolling instead of reading the copy in my bag.

He's a bad person and he's always lying.

It'll only be available for the super rich, will expand to other augmentations/engineering, and will result in further reinforcing social mobility boundaries.

"What's bad with eugenics for the rich?"

Is that his motivation though? Wanna make a bet that this does or doesn't end as he says at face value?

Because the US health care system already serves the wealthy and abandons the poor, any expensive treatments are seen as just further steps into a Gattaca future of even more dystopian disparity, especially when driven by a rich asshole personally.

Universal negativity is also kind of the norm around here. A lot of folks on Lemmy believe we are slaves sucking Satan’s cock for breakfast, and anything that isn’t a complete burn down of our system and way of life is a negative.

This isn't really an answer to the 'universal negativity', but for a somewhat reasonable analysis of the pros and (surprisingly high number of) cons as well as some interesting grey areas, there's an old LWT episode on this topic: https://youtu.be/AJm8PeWkiEU

Please review the glimpse into our future titled "Gattaca" to see why people might be concerned.