People obsessively focus on intelligence when talking about genetic engineering, but my guess is that that's going to be MUCH less important (and harder to do) than A) mood modifications like reducing anxiety and depression, and B) cosmetic changes like height.
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Yeah, and I bet it'll be all the rage in some developing countries.
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I don't have a rigorous argument for this: but what worried me most about increasing intelligence is creating a bunch of hyper-aggressive anti-social meglomaniacs. In my observation, keeping smart people smart AND prosocial is really hard.
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Of the incredibly smart people I've known, most were nice sweet folks, and maybe only one was a hyper-aggressive megalomaniac.
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Did they grow up in a nice middle class neighborhood, were the parents economically stable? Were they themselves bright and thereby have some experience with high intelligence?
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I honestly have no idea. Stanford math and physics profs were generally very nice guys, though there were one or two jerks. But there are one or two jerks in any department anywhere...
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I mean, thats definitely a survivorship thing.
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The smartest kids at my high school were all very nice folks, and still are. I have known only a few aggressive, arrogant geniuses in my life (most of them in economics). But many depressed and anxious ones.
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I think smart kids also are likely to bring out the worst kn each other.
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How about if it turned you into William Sidis?
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Or Ted Kaczynski…
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