Comment by David L (david-l) on How to have Polygenically Screened Children · 2023-05-09T17:50:19.395Z · LW · GW

I think you should mention that traits tend to be correlated. Genomic Prediction has a company policy of not telling you the polygenic scores for height, education attainment, or even cosmetic traits like the eye color of the embryo (this last one can be nearly 100% accurate). Understandably, they don't want to be accused of being an eugenics shop. However, there's strong correlation between height, education attainment, and lower mental disease risk. If you optimize for lower disease risk and height, you will get high education attainment as a by product.

Explicitly screening for IQ is what we want. I don't know when this will happen without all the associated baggage from people who won't even accept the very concept of behavior genetics.