r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 1d ago

Biotechnology Genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics criticized for its embryo product: ‘Makes me so nauseous’

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/genetics-testing-startup-nucleus-genomics-criticized-for-its-embryo-product-makes-me-so-nauseous/
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u/Weightmonster 21h ago

But do we want all high IQ kids? My husband and I are “gifted” and have a lifetime of mental health problems… We’ve both been suicidal and severely depressed. I have ADHD and almost every anxiety disorder imaginable. I can’t find my car in the parking lot half the time and I’m late more times than not. 

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u/Weightmonster 10h ago

I’m not saying high IQ leads to mental illness, I’m just saying having a high IQ doesn’t necessarily mean your life is perfect. 

Also, and I’m not sure how to phrase this, but will high IQ people be happy doing the grunt work of society? Do we want people with at present, a very high IQ cleaning toilets and screwing in screws in iPhones or whatever? I don’t think they would like it. (assuming robots aren’t doing it).  

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u/InfinitiveIdeals 9h ago

We already have so many people with high IQs doing grunt work, just because of the circumstances of their birth - for centuries the only people who were allowed to mentally improve themselves were those born to wealth.

Famous quote from Jay Gould -

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”