Kaj_Sotala comments on Eric Drexler on Learning About Everything - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 May 2009 12:57PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 28 May 2009 04:32:33PM 1 point [-]

Not to mention that heredity is always defined relative to a specific population being measured.

(For instance, giving everybody in a certain area access to high-quality education will reduce environmental variation and thus increase the role that genetic variation plays, pushing up the measured heredity of educational achievement.)