“Genius babies” is better IMO if you must have a term, though it’s of course silly (but so is “superbabies”); that’s what I say when I’m reaching for this term. “Children whose parents/makers used reprogenetics to make them have very high expected intelligence” is the very long phrase; I’d want a good term for “reprogenetics children”, and separately a term like “IQ-increased children”, and “superbabies” could be replaced by just combining those two words, though that might be too long. One could use some more florid term like “indigo children”. Another issue is that “reprogenetics IQ-increased children” isn’t actually all that relevant besides the facts that (1) most very very intelligent kids will likely be reprogenetics IQ-increased kids, later on; and (2) reprogenetics is the way to increase that category.
There may be a better term than superbabies for the thing I want to point to, or the thing you want to point to, but superbabies is certainly a bad term for the topic of OP
Open to suggestions that are better than some long phrase, but I don’t think “superbabies” is a good term. See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PPLHfFhNWMuWCnaTt/the-practical-guide-to-superbabies-3?commentId=hFj8yTRaMCRo6XpJt
“Genius babies” is better IMO if you must have a term, though it’s of course silly (but so is “superbabies”); that’s what I say when I’m reaching for this term. “Children whose parents/makers used reprogenetics to make them have very high expected intelligence” is the very long phrase; I’d want a good term for “reprogenetics children”, and separately a term like “IQ-increased children”, and “superbabies” could be replaced by just combining those two words, though that might be too long. One could use some more florid term like “indigo children”. Another issue is that “reprogenetics IQ-increased children” isn’t actually all that relevant besides the facts that (1) most very very intelligent kids will likely be reprogenetics IQ-increased kids, later on; and (2) reprogenetics is the way to increase that category.
Quoting myself from here:
(I get, and agree, that legibility is good, but that balances against these other considerations; better lexicogenesis is tugging the rope sideways.)
There may be a better term than superbabies for the thing I want to point to, or the thing you want to point to, but superbabies is certainly a bad term for the topic of OP