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Mark's avatar

This reminds me a little bit of a Philip K. Dick story called the Golden Man. A human is genetically engineered without sapience, only instincts. But it’s designed to be sexually appealing and beautiful, and turns out to have mild precognitive abilities. It’s traits make it more survivable than merely intelligent humans, and the genes are dominant. So humans breed with it and sapience becomes extinct. Cuteness wins.

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Ann K.'s avatar

We see this unfold in that Huxley, not Orwell, has proven the more prescient to date. No need to place a boot on our necks when they can merely seduce us with comforts and conveniences.

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