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Chimps and gorillas possess a large amount of muscle. Just look up "hairless chimp" - they're positively ripped. This is despite (as far as I know) a low protein diet and not engaging in large amounts of resistance training. I have a vague notion this is partially due to myostatin, although I'm sure there are other factors. My questions, will CRISPR eventually be able to make us as naturally ripped as chimps, will it be legal/accepted, and if it does become legal/accepted - how strong will the elitist culture be (I actually worked for these gains, you're just a filthy gene-modder)?
My suspicion is that the ven diagram of the kind of people who want to genetically modify their kids, and the kind who want to use it to make them look like Ahnold, is two circles.
Why?
While I expect that if human genetic modification becomes mainstream there will be a ‘male athlete package’ which is reasonably popular, that package will probably optimize for running speed, endurance, hand-eye coordination, and possibly height, and be much less popular than a ‘good behavior and slightly above average intelligence’ package. It’s not clear to me that there’s much demand from people to have power lifter sons in the same way many people strongly want to parent valedictorians or football quarterbacks.
More generally, we can probably assume that if human genetic modification is ever legal, it’ll be adopted earlier and more completely by the sort of progressive grey tribe elements who are less interested in physical characteristics to begin with.
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