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I wonder how they define intelligence. I suspect the cognitive traits that will serve an economy best in 30-40 years, when these babies reach the top of their e
by andreyf 9y ago
I wonder how they define intelligence. I suspect the cognitive traits that will serve an economy best in 30-40 years, when these babies reach the top of their economic productivity, are not what one might expect today.
- Symmetry 9y agoNot perfectly but being talented in one area tends to correlate with being talented in another area.
- riskable 9y agoConsidering that AI will likely take away most regular jobs that leaves... Entertainment. Will super smart brainiacs really have an edge in entertainment in 30 years?
- themeiguoren 9y agoSo I was one of the volunteers for this study - they accepted people based on a threshold of an official IQ test, or SAT/ACT scores. I forget if it was 99th percentile or higher. I heard about it on LessWrong way back while they were soliciting volunteers, and signed up as a way to get a free genotyping since my SAT was high enough. I lost the email thread, but I didn't get my genome data back for about 2 years (April 2015). The researcher I was talking to seemed frustrated at some pretty large delays in the project.