Some country somewhere is going to legalize this. Their citizens will have IQs several standard deviations higher than ours. Dr. Steven Hsu seems to think IQs f

Some country somewhere is going to legalize this. Their citizens will have IQs several standard deviations higher than ours. Dr. Steven Hsu seems to think IQs far higher than 180 (before renorming) are very possible. All countries will be forced to allow (or even subsidize) genetic intelligence augmentation. This is the nature of the incentives that will develop. We have very little choice in the matter. Any country with reservations will become a cognitive backwater, whose intellectuals will be routinely out-performed by grade-school children. From my perspective, it is tragic that some children are born with brains that cannot understand basic arithmetic. It is equally tragic that most are born with brains that cannot understand advanced physics. This technology will allow us to remedy a good portion of our ignorance. It should be embraced. Iodizing salt increased average IQ in many regions by a standard deviation. Reducing lead pollution about 8 more on top of this. Were these great evils? Why is removing deleterious mutations?