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Comment by eviks

6 months ago

Even if so, it's not a good proxy for the "quality" of data in someone's brain.

Ahh, you’re being defensive here, responding in an emotional manner irrespective of the underlying biology involved.

That could have saved me some typing responding to your other comments.

  • Falling in substantive arguments in the longer comments you switch to ad hominems to bail out. Timeless tactic. Though not the fittest: silently bailing out could've saved you more typing without degrading your reputation.

    • You’re mistaken about this as an ad hominem attack, different approach’s work on people responding emotionally.

There's no way to measure that in sperm, it only has potential. Most humans have similar intellectual capacity, yet they can perform vastly different depending on their environment, so the significant difference is not genetic.

Anyway, few would contest that being smart and strong is better than being smart or strong. Sperm can at least prove they're stronger.

  • > Sperm can at least prove they're stronger.

    But they can't prove that their future *human* is stronger!

    • > their future human is stronger

      That statement implies it’s a comparison between potential humans, which is not guaranteed at this stage. Sperm unable to result in live birth even if directly inserted into eggs exist in meaningful quantities.

      Sperm are normally required to demonstrate they have traits required to produce a human thus making them categorically better from a biological standpoint than Sperm missing those traits.

    • You're an adult human, and even you can't guarantee you will be stronger in several years, even if you try to become stronger today.

      Evolution is mostly gambling, and losing a lot.