Okay. But if social norms lead to almost everyone mating randomly and couples having the same number of kids on average, then what happens to genetic evolution?
The advancement and flourishing of the human species. But that's beside the point. What rbanffy suggests might be absurd, but not because it somehow violates the laws of biology.
I don’t see any point in human history where what is being described matches any stable human behavior. So while not impossible, it is probably unlikely eh?
And think of what that would actually mean, and if you’d even want it - you’d be as likely to match up with a random Chinese 60 year old, or a 13 year old African tribe member, or 30 something European (while being one of those other two) or whatever.
I can’t think of any sane person that would be willing to mate with someone truly randomly. And if it wasn’t truly random, who gets to decide on the criteria? Because that is exactly where the moral hazard comes in.
> you’d be as likely to match up with a random Chinese 60 year old, or a 13 year old African tribe member, or 30 something European
Any such system would probably match people within the same generation. At a future point humans may be far more ethnically homogeneous. Or reproduction may be separated from romance - you donate to the seed bank but sex is a sterile act. There's lots of possibilities. I admit most look unlikely; but like, if that's what it takes to thrive at a galactic level, then it's simply unlikely we never reach that level. But let's not pretend that this is some sort of fundamental biological impossibility.
You seem to have some trouble with words and concepts. And what seems to be a - creepy? - obsession with people losing their individual reproductive autonomy for some nebulous ‘greater good’.
Taking a hammer and using it to smash my hand for no individual benefit is unlikely and makes no sense, but certainly not impossible. Everyone on the planet doing it all at once, continuously, is also technically not impossible - but is never going to happen. For reasons that are very good for humanity in the long run.
Such as it is with evolution.
Not unless the borg take over anyway. Which we all should hope never, ever, happens.
There's no need for that hostility. I'm just spitballing charitable interpretations of rbanffy's statement. And you have pushed impossibility arguments e.g.
> Gene based evolution is constant. There is no way to avoid it
Regardless of what humans do, gene based evolution is constant. And even if we go full cloning - there is still gene based evolution which can (and certainly would) occur even in humans because humans work like humans. Regardless of what we pretend to work as.
Which is back to my original point. You can’t ‘compile your way out of compilers’ either. The entire discussion is just ignoring actual reality in a way that makes no actual sense to even discuss.
