wedrifid comments on BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan - Less Wrong

12 Post author: MichaelGR 06 February 2010 02:27PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 February 2010 04:42:13AM 1 point [-]

It would seem that finding genes that not only affect IQ but do so in a way that gives benefits even when done on fully developed brain will be an ethical minefield.

Comment author: whpearson 07 February 2010 12:42:26PM 0 points [-]

You could do tests on chimps and see if the genes associated with chimp IQ are correlated with human IQ. If so, then you could see what introducing them on fully developed chimp brains does.

The other route, is biohackers that hack their own brains. I'm really curious whether the number of people who get their own bioreactors etc will be anything like the number of people who hack electronics today.