Eugenics á la embryo selection/editing is cheaper and has no obvious limits, whereas education does (should we force people to study for 50 years?).https://twitter.com/WiringTheBrain/status/928191081824604160 …
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil
If you think embryo selection is cheap, you've obviously never had to pay for a round of IVF... And selection for IQ only has no obvious limits if you think of it like milk yield in cows or oil content in rapeseed
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Replying to @WiringTheBrain
Look at. https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection#cost-benefit … Selection for many of these quant traits have been going for decades with +20 sd gains. No obvious limit. http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-are-coming … https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3872177/ …http://science.sciencemag.org/content/307/5710/683 …
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil
The difference is we've *already* been strongly selected for increased intelligence, over hundreds of thousands of years.
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Replying to @WiringTheBrain @KirkegaardEmil
We don't need +20 SDs. A +2 SD boost to the mean would have momentous consequences and that's certainly possible: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614001676 …
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Replying to @pnin1957 @WiringTheBrain
A +2 to the main is the difference between Northern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Absolutely game changing. We currently have little idea how mean of 130 would look, but perhaps more game-changing! :) One sometimes sees upwards slopes in IQ x outcomes.
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Here's two. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cfda/7aa20912874b9818ae242a04703cc0922181.pdf … http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0034654316675476?journalCode=rera … (Actually, by the same author, Lubinski)pic.twitter.com/YEq18rHQls
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @WiringTheBrain
To the extent that
@GarettJones is right, the societal effect of +2 SDs would be much greater than individual returns to +2 SDs, e.g. effect of national IQ on GDP is many times larger than the effect of individual IQ on personal income.0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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