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If I was China I would put him in an underground lab and make him work day and night I can't find the article but there was a geneticist who said the differenc
by tossaccount123 8y ago
If I was China I would put him in an underground lab and make him work day and night
I can't find the article but there was a geneticist who said the difference between Einstein and the average human was 50-200 base pairs.
Which ever country figures that out first will rule the world. Instead of getting an Einstein or Newton or Da Vinci every several hundred years, they could have an assembly line of them.
China already collected the DNA of 2,200 geniuses to try and find correlations. The West's value of "human rights" and subjective ethics will be our doom. We are completely ignoring avenues of research because people don't like the implications of intelligence being genetic
https://singularityhub.com/2013/03/19/chinas-bgi-to-sequence-2200-geniuses-in-search-for-smart-genes/ https://singularityhub.com/2013/03/19/chinas-bgi-to-sequence...
- habith 8y agoI'm pretty sure it's about the ethics of altering humans and a fear or a resurgence of eugenics. That aside, I'm also pretty sure someone reviewed his work and found out that his HIV-immune mutation was not done correctly, it's a bit late for me to find a link, will update later if you're interested. Edit: Nvm, someone else posted a better answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798764
- sizzle 8y agoWill an army of Einsteins be impervious to atomic warfare? I mean if they have a superior grasp of physics and build the tech to intercept an ICBM then I suppose...
- tossaccount123 8y agoWho needs nukes when you can send an autonomous drone swarm to subjugate a country? Or develop an ethnic bio weapon to wipe out your enemies with no damage to infrastructure? Nukes will be seen as primitive brute force weapons in the future