Or you could just fund a gamete (why just sperm?) bank for very high-IQ / cognitive skilled / successful people—which would be way cheaper and more effective (you could buy the whole embryo if you want it). Or just fund genetics research and ethical eugenics advocacy, which is way more scalable. Thus people coulde better tell the difference between things that have a bad rep because they are bad ideas and things that have it because they are associated with bad ideas.
My point: best case scenario, you should be neutral to PR risks, and maybe see it as a con, instead of a complement to neglectedness in your cost-benefit analysis. But that’s hard to do when you’re looking for weird things by yourself.
By the way, sometimes rep risks signal something is just a bad idea.
Or you could just fund a gamete (why just sperm?) bank for very high-IQ / cognitive skilled / successful people—which would be way cheaper and more effective (you could buy the whole embryo if you want it). Or just fund genetics research and ethical eugenics advocacy, which is way more scalable. Thus people coulde better tell the difference between things that have a bad rep because they are bad ideas and things that have it because they are associated with bad ideas.
My point: best case scenario, you should be neutral to PR risks, and maybe see it as a con, instead of a complement to neglectedness in your cost-benefit analysis. But that’s hard to do when you’re looking for weird things by yourself.