Kevin comments on Intelligence Amplification Open Thread - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Will_Newsome 15 September 2010 08:39AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 September 2010 09:28:21AM 1 point [-]

With human genetic engineering having such a controversial status and without a Seasteading Institute presence it seems especially unlikely that we'll get to make use of all our knowledge of intelligence-related genes before FOOM or crash or whatever. :/ Maybe if we found a series of genes that regulated speed of human development such that a human could become fully mature in 3 years and die in 15? Seems unlikely...

Comment author: Kevin 19 September 2010 09:30:09AM 2 points [-]

It's going to be legal somewhere in Asia, if not throughout Asia

Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 September 2010 09:37:44AM 0 points [-]

Even so, unless such a project was started really soon with a really big budget then we just don't have enough time. Would it be possible to get such a project started in the next... say, 5 years? I don't know who has a vested interesting in human genetic engineering for intelligence or if we know enough about genetic engineering yet.

Comment author: DanArmak 26 September 2010 09:35:38AM 1 point [-]

I don't know who has a vested interesting in human genetic engineering for intelligence

All humans, for a start?