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munkeegutz comments on Humans Shouldn't make Themselves Smarter? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: munkeegutz 13 December 2011 12:36:43AM 3 points [-]

There's also the situation of "local maxima": It's possible (probable) that there are ways to make humans smarter through evolution, but the intermediate steps have poor results, causing a resistance to progress.