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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 17 Mar 2016

    Steven Pinker: How Soon Will Genetic Enhancement Create Smarter Humans? (A: Don't hold your breath.) http://bigthink.com/videos/steven-pinker-on-bioengineering-genius … via @bigthink

    12:25 PM - 17 Mar 2016
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      2. Fabius Maximus (Ed.)‏ @FabiusMaximus01 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Drugs & perhaps machine interfaces probably will make people smarter before genetic engineering. http://wp.me/p8CHb-o2N  @amcafee

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. gwern‏ @gwern 18 Mar 2016
        Replying to @FabiusMaximus01

        @FabiusMaximus01 Centuries of drug development have yet to yield a nootropic or stimulant which makes much difference. Better start waiting.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Fabius Maximus (Ed.)‏ @FabiusMaximus01 18 Mar 2016
        Replying to @gwern

        @gwern It took a long time for man to fly. That's a weak rebuttal given the rapid pace of bioscience.http://fabiusmaximus.com/2016/01/08/human-enhancement-boon-or-bane-92429/ …

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      5. gwern‏ @gwern 18 Mar 2016
        Replying to @FabiusMaximus01

        @FabiusMaximus01 There is no rapid pace of nootropics development, as there is not for drugs in general: Eroom's Law.

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      6. Fabius Maximus (Ed.)‏ @FabiusMaximus01 18 Mar 2016
        Replying to @gwern

        @gwern 1/ Eroom's Law is a crude metric of R&D efficiency, not the rate of R&D progress. What's its relevance here?

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      7. gwern‏ @gwern 18 Mar 2016
        Replying to @FabiusMaximus01

        @FabiusMaximus01 Alzheimers is a great example. Any good noot will be a hugely profitable treatment of symptoms, but no dice. Total failure.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Alejandro Palomares‏ @AHPSC 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @DJGrothe @bigthink One cannot make money out of smart humans! Dumb ones are more manageable.

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      2. Martin Gregory Snigg‏ @Martin17773 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @Steve_Sailer @bigthink #AbolitionofMan <-How many jumped-up science commentators have read CS Lewis' 'The Abolition of Man'?

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      3. Martin Gregory Snigg‏ @Martin17773 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @Martin17773

        @sapinker @Steve_Sailer @bigthink End of nat.philosophy is wisdom;sapinker plays Spinozan pantheism card WO117https://archive.org/details/berquistwisdom …

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @bigthink possible now, but no one is doing it (as far as we know)

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      3. wobbles the ghost‏ @wobbles 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @KirkegaardEmil

        @KirkegaardEmil @sapinker @bigthink really hard to say that without actual human experiments, as the video explains

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      4. Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @wobbles

        @wobbles @sapinker @bigthink http://www.gwern.net/Embryo  selection unnecessary

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. wobbles the ghost‏ @wobbles 17 Mar 2016
        Replying to @KirkegaardEmil

        @KirkegaardEmil @sapinker Argument is selectors don't/can't know what to select, not that selection is impossible.

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      1. gwern‏ @gwern 18 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Schizophrenia argument is weird. You know almost all the pleiotropic effects so far are positive and it'll reduce schizophrenia.

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