Was gonna say this makes zero sense. IQ tests are extremely dubious at best even when personalized to the individuals cultural norms and mostly revolve around learned cultural behaviors and pattern recognitions that stem from those cultural behaviors. An embryo has not yet learned anything how could it have an IQ.
IQ tests were an absolute mistake to the point that even the dude who invented them tried to get people to stop using them.
Lol if the fascist eugenicists who are making this didn't think IQ was a function of how much aryan blood you have in your veins they would have never made this garbage. Zero chance this isn't descended from 's grants for geneticists making eugenics apps. Did you hear about the eugenics dating app?
Welcome to pseudoscienctific eugenics. The baby has weak, human skin. Let's graft it with the scales of a Komodo dragon. Oh no, it will have shit immune system. Let's pair it with the immune system of a bat. What about fireproof body? Let's give him a slime-secreting gland. Teeths broke? Let's put in the tooth genes of a shark. What about water breathing? Hybrid lungs. Oh no, his puny human eyes can't see colors? Let's give him the compound eyes of a mantis shrimp.
But now he's an entire different race? Let's call him a Furyan.
makes zero sense, they would need a dataset showing every detail of an embryo and correlating it to IQ later in life, no such thing exists, period
eugenicist designer babies make far more sense with our current technology, reasonably you could measure what their eye color or hair color would be and abort if you didnt like it (wtf lol imagine putting your body through all of this just to get a baby like this)
Managers boasted their methods could produce a gain of more than six IQ points.
bro what a normal person can experience iq swings on a particular day greater than this just by not sleeping well
"Well, considering the amount of money you've given us to provide this 'service', it's safe to say you don't need to worry about your child having an excessive IQ... In particular, I'd say there is about 66% chance of it being between 85 and 115."
I've ran into way too many techbro dipshits in the past that wanted to build the Torment Nexus from Gattaca. I'm not kidding. They thought the society was great as it was.
I'll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you're young okay
The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC's specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn't he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?
honestly i almost respect the grift, because there's literally no way of getting reliable results and that's a lot of money to charge gullible race realists
For Michael Christensen, Heliospect’s Danish CEO and a former financial markets trader, genetic selection promises a bright future. “Everyone can have all the children they want and they can have children that are basically disease-free, smart, healthy; it’s going to be great,” he boasted during a video call in November 2023.
IQ is such a messy bunch of environment-vs-heredity factors for an arbitrary number that measures successful integration into western hegemony that it's not likely there'd be any reliable or consistent ways to increase it in a falsifiable way in an embryo besides "make sure parents have high IQs," and even then, kind of dubious.
Now, if techbros wanted to breed more ruthlessly efficient sociopaths I'm sure enough Torment Nexus tinkering could screen away frontal lobe and mirror neuron functionality.