China is engineering High IQ offsprings

[Aegis DDG]

It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower, is it? While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world’s natural resources. But now, not content to simply laugh and make jerk-off signs as they pass us on the geopolitical highway, they’ve also developed a state-endorsed genetic-engineering project.

At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump up every generation's intelligence by five to 15 IQ points. Within a couple of generations, competing with the Chinese on an intellectual level will be like challenging Lena Dunham to a getting-naked-on-TV contest.

Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist and lecturer at NYU, is one of the 2,000 braniacs who contributed their DNA. I spoke to him about what this creepy-*** program might mean for the future of Chinese kids.

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Damn you Han Chinese are scary :O

 

[Wright]

They already have the highest Iq's in the world. They need to help other nations increase theirs.

 

[armchairPrivate]

The Chinese are going to have too big a head, they need a tripod to help them stand straight.

 

[Mattrixx]

Damn its not right to make artificial/hybrid man.

 

[Aegis DDG]

They already have the highest Iq's in the world. They need to help other nations increase theirs.

Not higher than Japan !

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

They already have the highest Iq's in the world. They need to help other nations increase theirs.

Our tested IQ is already way above the world average, but our GDP per capita is below world average.

Just goes to show that having high IQ doesn't mean much.

What matters is what you do with that IQ. What's the point of having it if it's not being used.

 

[Aegis DDG]

Our tested IQ is already way above the world average, but our GDP per capita is below world average.

Just goes to show that having high IQ doesn't mean much.

What matters is what you do with that IQ. What's the point of having it if it's not being used.

China is churning out future engineers, doctors, Chemist, Biologist, physicist, economist (BSc), lawyers, civil servants etc... while the west wastes it's time on Arts and Humanities in it's education system.

 

[Armstrong]

@Chinese-Dragon : So let me get this straight...your & that Redhead's kids are going to be MENSA material ?

 

[karan21]

If china does this world will follow. Especially the bigger countries like India, europeans and americans. Most of these countries have advanced genetics research and if this singnificantly impact economy and development then why not..

 

[3Idiots]

Can we please have some photoshop as a proof.
(This is a custom.. ain't it).

I'd love to see a "sophisticated" chinese engineer giving an "IQ" shot to a long line of 532,000 chinese children.

 

[TruthSeeker]

What I find fascinating/amusing is that high Chinese IQ has not yet translated into political change towards individual freedom. At some point, I think, it must. Also, we have yet to see any significant technological advances due to high Chinese IQ. Perhaps these two observations are linked. That is, Chinese technological advances will only come with INDIVIDUAL CHINESE FREEDOM .....

 

[PITA]

I wouldn't sweat it. I'm sure everyone on here knows really smart people that just don't get anywhere and met dumb people that have it all.

I'd rather keep my amazing good looks anyways.

 

[RiazHaq]

Chinese and East Asians already have very high IQs, according to Lynn's data:

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[HongWu]

With this technology, we will make animals ultra-smart so they can be more entertaining companions.

 

[xuxu1457]

I don't think IQ really so important or one group is higher than another, human are at the same level, Education and hard work more imortant