Re: [luv-talk] Global warming and survivalism (fork from Linux != Poltics)

Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:

I don't think we could get "everyone well educated". There are biological limitations for many, and no matter how advanced a culture is, there will always be the need for a significant proportion of menial jobs (though they'd seem pretty neat to us nowadays).

Julian Savulescu presents interesting arguments in favour of human enhancement, for example, biological interventions to raise the average intelligence of the population or to improve the capacity for impulse control (lack of which is responsible for some criminal behaviour). These are very interesting arguments indeed, and highly relevant to the points you raise.