gwern comments on So You Want to Save the World - Less Wrong

41 Post author: lukeprog 01 January 2012 07:39AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 January 2012 02:48:11PM 2 points [-]

How confident are you in our ability, supposing everyone mysteriously possessed the will to do so or we somehow implemented such a program against people's wills, to implement a eugenics program that resulted in, say, as much as a 5% improvement in either the maximum measured intelligence and conscientiousness in the population, or as much as a 5% increase in the frequency of the highest-measured I-and-C ratings (or had some other concretely articulated target benefit, if those aren't the right ones) in less than, say, five generations?

Comment author: gwern 31 January 2012 12:54:29AM 2 points [-]

Hsu seems pretty confident (http://lesswrong.com/lw/7wj/get_genotyped_for_free_if_your_iq_is_high_enough/5s84) but not due to the Flynn Effect (which may have stalled out already).