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I have a silly question - if, as observation allows, some existing people are objectively better than others at things we can measure reliably, what is the ethical problem?

there's probably a social justice reason it's a "bad" thing,

They will be. :) Nothing wrong with that, it's just evolution.

The running example reminds me of https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...

>and just more advanced evolved //

Except not evolved at all, just genetically engineered by humans. Unless evolved now means semi-intelligently designed by someone with half the necessary information?

Natural Selection is normally the only means by which evolution occurs, but evolution itself is merely "descent with modification", which this would qualify as. We're really just jump-starting the mutation process, and once that part is done, whether those designer babies go on to have children of their own will come down to natural selection.

[1] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_0...