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[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not so much technology, but I'd fund the Howard Society for real. For those unfamiliar, it's a program to identify people who are genetically predisposed to natural long life and pay them to have kids with each other; it's a core plot point in a bunch of Heinlein novels.

[โ€“] CyanFen@lemmy.one 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that just eugenics with extra steps?

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 8 points 9 months ago

It's actually eugenics without extra steps!

[โ€“] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I find a lot of people don't understand what eugenics even is. Hell, as Richard Dawkins proved, if you worded it properly you could even get people to rally behind it, which is a huge problem because eugenics is fascist pseudoscience.