But also, take a look around you. The species isn't going to optimize for intelligence. It's going to optimize for looks. That's just how we're wired. And that will destroy a lot of plastic surgeon jobs.
Even when people find someone attractive it doesn’t mean they just get together. This is some high school level perspective way off base from a contemporary relationship.
Just because the words create a believable scenario does not mean you’re anywhere close to a probable one.
edit: the comment about plastic surgery is really weird. Do you think that 90% of humanity is going to stop breeding just because they aren't as attractive as the other 10%? And who's paying for plastic surgery? From my understanding, it's that vain 10%...
But I would suggest we don't slander beautiful people. Vanity comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes and isn't the exclusive province of beautiful people. There's plenty of vanity in this thread alone, let along HN, much worse than the petty vanity of a 13 year old girl. Vanity affects all human beings.
(Also, those who spend on plastic surgery are either mentally ill (in the manner of bulimics) or probably not in those 10%. Otherwise, why the plastic surgery? Otherwise back to mental illness. Besides, plastic surgery doesn't actually make you beautiful, it can at best make you appear beautiful because it's fake, so you're being fraudulent because you are only simulating beauty at best.)
As for genetic diversity, sure we need genetic diversity, but we also no longer need the gene that fights malaria in the heterozygous case but gives you sickle cell anemia in the homozygous case because we have treatment for malaria now. Lather rinse repeat for a whole bunch of genetic ailments that will eventually get filtered out of the genome by evolution because they no longer serve their purpose so what's your problem with us accelerating the schedule? Or do you see value in the BRCA gene for your unconceived potential daughter for some reason?
There's definitely a moral hazard beyond that and I admitted as much but there's plenty of runway before we get there. But also if we really need to reintroduce these genes down the road we have the technology to do so.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug...
Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around.
Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool
This is all far-future when we are more experienced and knowledgeable about genes in total, at least after having made loads of mistakes. That's worrying, but inevitable.
Which is why I roll my eyes realizing that none of that will happen for a very long time but if you could make 60-year-olds look like 30-year-olds with an mRNA treatment or something similar, you would make Bezos and Musk look like paupers. It wouldn't even have to make you young on the inside and you'd still die in a decade or two but at least you'd leave a beautiful corpse because that's all that matters in the end.