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Or maybe if you put too many IQ-associated alleles in one person you wind up with a psychotic wreck. We don't know how these genes interact, if they do, nor by

Or maybe if you put too many IQ-associated alleles in one person you wind up with a psychotic wreck. We don't know how these genes interact, if they do, nor by what mechanism they work. And unlike with corn, you can't just guess until something works; experimenting with actual humans would be a major ethical breach, and there's no animal models of human intelligence. Progress on that front is possible but unlikely in this century.

clort 10y ago
> Progress on that front is possible but unlikely in this century. I agree in a way, but every time this comes up I point out that in East Germany they would have pounced on this technique and built a secret base in the wilderness to work on it. I say East Germany because it is a matter of historical record, what they put their athletes through. So I'm saying that progress on that front is possible but unlikely in this country, where we consider a major ethical breach to be something to be avoided entirely, not just hidden.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  You're talking about a country which prepared to biowarfare by dropping bacteria on its own civilian population (including San Francisco Bay Area[0]) to see what happens, without telling anyone. A country that has its own movie industry creating story after story of its military experimenting on people, to the point it's pretty much became a trope. So no, I wouldn't be so sure this couldn't in principle happen in the US of A. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray