Twin study suggests rationality and intelligence share the same genetic roots - the study suggests that being irrational, or making illogical choices, might simply be another way of measuring lower intelligence.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/twin-study-suggests-rationality-and-intelligence-share-the-same-genetic-roots/

[u/Foolishium]

Autism would be nice if it could be cured and allow people to live a normal full life not dependent on others for everything instead of being able to make their own choices.

Autism doesn't mean that you are dependent on others for everything. Only low-functioning autistics are dependent on others.

Unless you are nuanced enough to differentiate between different severities of autism when talking about Autism, I don't think should be talk about curing Autism.

People with High-functioning autism doesn't need to be cured.

[u/Dracus_ → u/Foolishium]

People with High-functioning autism doesn't need to be cured.

I think it's a valid opinion when mandatory taking into account the specific value system it stems from, but the only ones who should get to decide are parents to be. A thought experiment, but somehow I think that many if not most future parents when being present a guarantee in the form of genetic "drug" that their future baby will belong to the majority on the behavioral landscape (i.e. not on the spectrum, not LGBT, and obviously not with any congenital mental disorders) will strive to take that guarantee. They would understand it will make life for their child much simpler. If that becomes possible, this will likely lead to backsliding on human rights for and treatment of the remaining "others", but is it enough to straight up prohibit such interventions on principle?

[u/Foolishium → u/Dracus_]

Pre-Natal genetic engineering probably will be inevitable. Because it will become parental right to conceive a child according to their desire.

However, majoritarian preference are short-sighted. Traits like Autism, ADHD and Gay have evolutionary function that helped humanity to survive to this day.

Majoritarian preference will decrease human genetic diversity and make human less genetically resillient.

If every human have same/similar genetics make up, then they all share same/similiar weakness. This will create a population that can be wiped out by a single threat.

[u/guiltysnark → u/Foolishium]

This presumes that we haven't evolved beyond the utility of evolutionary function... Evolution requires a surviving genetic configuration to reach the successful act of procreation, the theory crediting that achievement to fitness of some kind. But at this point we have so many modes of overriding the effects of natural selection, does any effect even remain? If it persists, is it accelerated because more generic material is kept, or slower than before because the selective functions are far less aggressive?

The ability to manipulate genetics is an eventual outcome of evolution. Does this ability defeat natural selection, or improve upon it, given where we are?