Comments on: Genetic Russian Roulette

By: Konkvistador

Konkvistador — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:55:40 +0000

Alternatives to schools are outlawed in many European countries. De jure they are legal where I live but I did research and they are defacto not.

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By: DanielLC

DanielLC — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:25:44 +0000

You could just donate sperm.

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By: One Brain, Many Selves: Demons, Tulpas & Neurons Gone Wild

One Brain, Many Selves: Demons, Tulpas & Neurons Gone Wild — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:53:11 +0000

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:35:56 +0000

You can have classrooms called A and B, you are just not allowed to openly speak about the fact that A is an elite classroom, and B is where you put the rest.

Even if the teachers and administrators don’t talk about it, the kids will notice. And when they grow up, they’ll know which class their kids got put into if they pay any attention at all.

You could probably improve your odds of getting away with it if you mixed things at the borders, especially if you made sure that kids near the border got to spend some years in each class.

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:17:15 +0000

there’s little that’s quite as fascinating as watching a small intelligence grow, and seeing all the hundreds of abilities we so blithely blanket-label as “intelligence”.

Oh God yes! My two daughters (4 and 6½) are figuring out all sorts of things, and at fairly different paces from each other. It is fascinating.

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By: Roxolan

Roxolan — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:28:00 +0000

False positives aren’t the issue here. (False negatives certainly are.)

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By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:34:33 +0000

I just wanted to say that this post isn’t so terribly scary to those with/wanting young kids. I have a toddler and a one-month-old. I regret reading Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree when I was pregnant with said one-month-old. There’s nothing you’ve written that comes anywhere close to approximating that book’s horrors.

Erm, so don’t read that book if your girlfriend wants kids. And please don’t string your girlfriend along if she wants kids and you’re ambivalent, lest she end up like a friend of mine who left her husband at the age of 40 because he wouldn’t change his mind about having a kid. She went with a sperm donor and is a single mom to a lovely toddler, but I don’t think that’s anyone’s ideal scenario.

Having kids is scary and unpredictable; so is life. You could sire a child with a horrible disability. You might also die from a freak aneurism in five minutes. Most people, however, have healthy and reasonably functional children and live to be at least 70 or so. I have anxiety problems and tend to dwell on the scary “what-ifs,” but I’m much happier when I plug my ears and sing “la la la” to myself about such things.

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By: Linkspam, 11/29/13 Edition — Radish Reviews

Linkspam, 11/29/13 Edition — Radish Reviews — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:31:30 +0000

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By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:20:26 +0000

I do wish you would write up your proposal (and generally do a lot of blogging).

Also, St. Rev is responsible for that post. I merely requested it.

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By: houseboatonstyx

houseboatonstyx — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:34:46 +0000

This comment section, in general, seems to be full of people who not only don’t want kids but cannot comprehend the mindset in which one would desire kids.

I, on the other side, was seeing it as full of people pushing the pro-kids side, with no sympathy even for Scott’s undecided position.

I wonder which, if either, of us will go to the trouble of counting the posters, and the posts, on each side. Maybe the pro’s are making like one post each, and the anti’s are hanging on arguing.

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