CarlShulman comments on Modest Superintelligences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 22 July 2012 08:27:36PM 0 points [-]

It is unclear to which extent the truly exceptional ability is a result of just being lucky that the random parts of the development process resulted in right kind of circuitry.

In twin studies this is partitioned out as "non-shared environment." In the central range it explains less variation than genetics, but more than household-level environment.