5 Things To Worry About Before You Die
Chinese Eugenics
So, I never used to be worried about the Chinese eugenic program. Or a lot of other things. Until I read this post on Edge.org in which a lot of really smart people explain what they’re worried about. And this stuff is pretty scary. Including the Chinese eugenics program, about which this one dude, Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at NYU of all places says, “I worry that this poses some existential threat to Western civilization. Yet the most likely result is that America and Europe linger around a few hundred more years as also-rans on the world-historical stage, nursing our anti-hereditarian political correctness to the bitter end.” Is this scarier than rabies? Unclear at this point. But it certainly sounds scary. The whole post is very long and full of many other important things to be worried about like “Unfriendly Physics” and “Internet Drivel” and “Self-Organizing Collective Delusions” and “Misplaced Worries.” I feel like those last three in particular should be of special concern to me.