Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "" video.

  1. This is so frustrating. Mutations aren't one generation or carried forward once. A harmful mutation carried forward 10,000 years can later meet another harmful mutation and become hugely beneficial. You need to carry neutral or harmful mutations for the variety of the species, it's an existential benefit to struggle, carry recessive genes, or have sick people. As a person with diabetes and autoimmune conditions I'm not saying disabling issues like colitis and blindness are great to live with, but to have competent doctors you need sick people for them to treat. To level out the gene pool under the hubris of knowing what's best for humans for all of time is utterly incompetent and selfish. You can't possibly believe narrowing variation is a good thing when all of logic and science suggest otherwise. Look up sickle cell, horrible disease. There's a benefit to that mutation though, having just one recessive gene is protective against malaria. Now imagine malaria outbreak résistent to all drugs but the gene pool has completely selected sickle cell out of the population. That's extinction. It's absurd to pretend you can see that far into the future to manually select all unfavourable diseases when you can't know what diseases will exist or be protective tomorrow without knowing how to hand write DNA to generate new species. It is not a fact that "deliterious mutations accumulate", he's completely made this up based on his feelings. Lower disease this generation says nothing about protecting a species or nation from extinction 10/100/1,000/etc years later. Accumulated mutations like being shorter could easily be beneficial given things like bone density by mass don't scale linearly, hence the limit to human size. Being short and strong could mean less food requirement and short genes could obviously compound. There are so many reasons not to be tall and lanky like I am and just as many reasons tall and lanky fit for swimming and climbing might also avert extinctions one day, not least being having short and tall people mean both can help each other. This is so incredibly ill thought and he's so proud and sure that nothing exists beyond his first impression of the greatest complex system in the known universe. These ideas are unbelievably myopic and incoherently simplistic. What would make more sense is to select for growing organs and developing medications from embryos, to treat the variation that arises because propagating the most variety in the gene pool is actually in everyone's long term best interest.
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