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Whatever the actual facts of DNA turn out to be, that we can now edit it directly instead of having to rely on "bloodlines", means I suspect that both the benefits and the horrifying mistakes will both be amplified immensely.
"Millenium" is much too long a timescale to predict; look at the last one, and tell me if you seriously think anyone in the year 1024 would've foreseen the rise to global dominance of one third of King Canute[0]'s North Sea Empire and how that small, wet, sheep-filled rock managed to conquer more of the world than they knew existed at the time… before then collapsing in a series of pyrrhic victories.
Especially as, at the same time the British Isles were busy with communal living in single-room sticks-and-cow-dung buildings, the middle east and north Africa were experiencing the Islamic Golden Age.
[0] yes, that one
> Turns out there are pretty fundamental reasons why "3rd world" is "3rd world", and it's not a magic piece of land that turns anyone on it into "1st world".
Right. What does “1st world” mean according to you? Because its commonly accepted meaning pretty much is “people in a couple of specific countries”. If you use the phrase as a proxy for “developed”, then duh. Of course 2nd or 3rd world countries can develop as well. The fact that the US will be overtaken at some point is something commonly accepted by people at least familiar with History.
> The data science revolution is not only falsifying decades of social sciences (replication crisis), but exposing some very harsh truths that are still too inconvenient to deal with it.
Right. Such as? Can you name say 3 harsh truths hidden by social studies and exposed by data science? How are they “inconvenient to deal with”?
> How humanity deals with the facts of DNA is the question of the next millenium.
What are “the facts of DNA”? Is this some kind of dog whistle?
> Personally my bet is on a new dark age as we depopulate.
How can that be a consequence of how we deal with “facts of the DNA”?
I feel like there is something you're alluding to that I'm not quite understanding.
I promise this question is in good faith, I genuinely want to understand what you're getting at.
This map shows 50% of the world's GDP: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ft...
From first principles: why? and why does it map to one of the most replicated, but most taboo findings: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...
Now, sort the table in the second link in reverse order. And compare with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability
What are the consequences of this? What does it mean for law, education, social fabric?
Ironically, the make up of HN replicates this TO A DOT. Hypocrisy so thick it chokes you out.