Baughn comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 26 January 2012 11:39:12PM 2 points [-]

I would add a fourth possibility:

Lack of time.

It seems likely to me that our civilization and technology developed at the earliest possible point it could have, in which case the high-IQ genes are simply not fixated yet, but would be if we hung around for a few (tens of) thousands more years. For that matter, there's no reason not to think we'd go well above our current maximum.

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