If I am in support of designer babies, and see this as an important issue, does that fall in under your “toxic and exclusionary” label?
Or would you perhaps want to make that taboo, due to “guilt by association”? (If so, I ask rhetorically—at what degree of seperation does the guilt by association stop?)
I see that the post author explicitly chose to not put Steve Hsu under the eugenics/HBD label, which I appreciate. But the author did throw shade at Steve Hsu.
If people didn’t know the context, they might think that you only want to make opinions taboo if they are mean-spirited or inherently constitute some sort of personal attack. While in actuality, the scope of ideas you want to be taboo is wider than that. And that is for good and understandable reasons. It’s wider than that for me too (even if it is less wide than yours).
From my perspective, there is significant truth/wisdom in your comment here. But also some degree of not acknowledging genuine tradeoffs.
As an added comment: I feel unsure myself about what the right balance is for this sort of thing.
If I am in support of designer babies, and see this as an important issue, does that fall in under your “toxic and exclusionary” label?
Or would you perhaps want to make that taboo, due to “guilt by association”? (If so, I ask rhetorically—at what degree of seperation does the guilt by association stop?)
I see that the post author explicitly chose to not put Steve Hsu under the eugenics/HBD label, which I appreciate. But the author did throw shade at Steve Hsu.
If people didn’t know the context, they might think that you only want to make opinions taboo if they are mean-spirited or inherently constitute some sort of personal attack. While in actuality, the scope of ideas you want to be taboo is wider than that. And that is for good and understandable reasons. It’s wider than that for me too (even if it is less wide than yours).
From my perspective, there is significant truth/wisdom in your comment here. But also some degree of not acknowledging genuine tradeoffs.
As an added comment: I feel unsure myself about what the right balance is for this sort of thing.