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Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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[-] scruiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

One of the comments really annoyed me:

The “genetics is meaningless at the individual level” argument has always struck me as a bit of an ivory-tower oversimplification.

No, its pushing back at eugenicist with completely fallacious ideas. See for example Genesmith's posts on Lesswrong. They are like concentrated Genetics Dunning-Kruger and the lesswrongers eat them up.

No one is promising perfect prediction.

Yes they are, see Kelsey Piper's comments about superbabies, or Eliezer worldbuilding about dath Ilan's eugenics, or Genesmith's totally wacko ideas.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

You know how leftwingers have now realized that teaching the right about concepts like gaslighting was a mistake because they keep misusing them? So instead of a 'do not do this/be aware of people doing this' they turn it into a rethorical weapon. The motte and bailey.

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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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