@sapinker Drugs & perhaps machine interfaces probably will make people smarter before genetic engineering. http://wp.me/p8CHb-o2N @amcafee
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@FabiusMaximus01 Centuries of drug development have yet to yield a nootropic or stimulant which makes much difference. Better start waiting. -
@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/ … -
@FabiusMaximus01 There is no rapid pace of nootropics development, as there is not for drugs in general: Eroom's Law. -
@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? -
@FabiusMaximus01 Alzheimers is a great example. Any good noot will be a hugely profitable treatment of symptoms, but no dice. Total failure.
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@sapinker@Steve_Sailer@bigthink#AbolitionofMan <-How many jumped-up science commentators have read CS Lewis' 'The Abolition of Man'? -
@sapinker@Steve_Sailer@bigthink End of nat.philosophy is wisdom;sapinker plays Spinozan pantheism card WO117https://archive.org/details/berquistwisdom …
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@KirkegaardEmil@sapinker@bigthink really hard to say that without actual human experiments, as the video explains -
@wobbles@sapinker@bigthink http://www.gwern.net/Embryo selection unnecessary -
@KirkegaardEmil@sapinker Argument is selectors don't/can't know what to select, not that selection is impossible. - 1 more reply
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@sapinker Schizophrenia argument is weird. You know almost all the pleiotropic effects so far are positive and it'll reduce schizophrenia.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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