Silicon Valley Wants to Help Me Make a Superbaby. Should I Let It?

A less-click-baity title: "I used two startups to do genetic testing on me and my husband"

I scored thousands of high school essay exams in some really good school districts, which covered topics like evolutionary science. The brute fact is that evolution favors adaptation to changes to conditions in the environment, which are by their nature unpredictable. What is favored now may not matter in a decade or a century. So for Silicon Valley, maybe the perspective now is that nerdy proficiency is favored for success. But that doesn't mean they will be in a decade or even next year. Say, for example, that AI does the things that needs are better at now in just a few years. At that point, who knows (and possibly one could hope) - maybe human compassion becomes the favored trait? In which case, nerdy-ness is no longer favored. This is only a brief response, I could write on and on about other examples of traits that work well under one set of circumstances, but don't work so well in other. In other words, evolution favors those who do well under unpredictable future circumstances. Randomness can play an large role in what is favored in the future.