Lalartu comments on Stupid Questions, December 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lalartu 08 December 2015 12:05:24PM 0 points [-]

It is hard to tell in advance what is important. Quite a few innovations that were promised to change everything turned out to have much more limited value.

Within a decade we should know a lot about the genetic basis of intelligence

I don't see any reason for it. So far, all knowledge in this area is just correlation between some genes and IQ, with no understanding how it works. Judging from history of other technologies, with such theoretical base any major improvements take centuries of trial and error.