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“The simple fact is that when one would be doing the editing and or selection, one would also make sure to keep the natural machinery for reproduction working.”

I had the exact same objection you did reading the exact same passage. He doesn’t seem to think of it himself despite claiming to have thought about this theory for five years? It’s very odd.

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Evolution/selection through differential reproduction never stops. It seems that a lot of people forget that. If embryo selection tends to select for infertility genes because infertile couples are using it, then, yes, some infertility genes may tend to get propagated. But right now it's being used by elites who are only infertile because they "forgot" to have babies during their naturally fertile years. So this doesn't seem to be a big concern.

Besides, natural selection in the wild currently seems to be pretty dysgenic (from our cultural phenotype preferences, anyway). Sci-Fi speculation about it going off the rails many generations in the future hardly seems like a reason to be against it now.

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Jean Francois Gariepy is just another doomsayer trying to make a buck from the idiot portion of the populace.

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His argument does seem to fail the obvious and significant stress tests that he surely would expect to be applied by skeptics. But a type of his concept of the phenotype revolution is very much on the cards even now.With western society and culture simultaneously promoting the ongoing reduction of the white native birth rate and miscegenation by mostly white females with blacks and browns and homosexual males using surrogates to give birth to babies from those selected embryos that change is already taking place.

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In fairness to the Wachowski Autogynephiles, they didn't want to turn humans into batteries. They had human serving as a biological neural network, but the suits at Warner Bros. thought this would be too complicated for the flyover cows of '99 to understand, so they dumbed it down. They also didn't fight back on this, presumably because they got a stupidly good deal from the studio on the revenue split and didn't wanna rock the boat.

Still have no idea how they made such a good film as they never came close to following it up. Maybe all those forced-feminization dominatrix sessions broke their nerd brains:

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/from-the-memory-hole-rolling-stones

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I thought the book was about the phenotype of revolutionaries, you know, a more intellectual version of those "look at these mugshots of Portland antifa" posts we used to see on Twitter.

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Thanks a lot. I read it recently and have my own criticisms. Can’t wait to read what you have to say on this

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