PhilGoetz comments on Genetically Engineered Intelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 December 2010 05:42:17PM *  1 point [-]

Genetic engineering of the human genome is a difficult and slow process

Designing one new gene would be far beyond our capabilities. But choosing a set of good alleles based on genome-wide association studies would be trivial. Combining them together in a gamete would be difficult with current technology, but may become easy quickly. GM crops exist with IIRC at least 6 stable transgenes.