2) Her response: We don’t know how to define intelligence; I know brilliant mathematicians who aren’t good at art and vice versa; increasing intelligence would take something away from humanity.
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1) Here’s a sad thing. In this otherwise great podcast, Prof. Doudna is asked what she thinks about CRISPR being used to raise intelligence in future (~32m30s).https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/humanity-2.0 …
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3) The first two are the classic vague, anecdotal, and incorrect arguments against intelligence research we’ve all heard a million times (the third is just weird). Was nice to hear Harris pushing back a bit, but still.
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4) Conclusion: psychologists have done a *terrible* job of getting our strongest, best-replicated work “out there”, if even brilliant, world-changing scientists like Doudna are unaware that it exists.
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5) Don’t get me wrong - I don’t expect Doudna to take one position or another on whether it’s a good idea to gene-edit for IQ. But how can we start to debate it if we don’t know the most basic facts?
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6) (By which I mean: the fact of predictive validity of IQ, the fact it’s to a great extent general, the fact we’re making strong progress finding the genes, etc).
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7) Before we get into moral debates about what we *do* with the genetics of intelligence, we have to at least know the basic facts about it. And people don’t. Indeed, many deny them. Sad! The end.
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The parsimonious explanation is that she didn’t want to get caught up in anything controversial, so she demurred.
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I listened to the podcast. She’s big-time now and doesn’t want to blow her credibility with liberal scientists who shudder to think about acknowledging differences in IQ across any groups, or even whether it’s appropriate to quantify. She’s playing it safe.
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IQ is about proving you're better than someone else. Being intelligent comes with a better/happier attitude.
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noticed that
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