It really doesn't help that much of the public conversation is based on the false premise that intelligence is primarily an environmental phenomenon and that he

It really doesn't help that much of the public conversation is based on the false premise that intelligence is primarily an environmental phenomenon and that heredity has only a minor influence or none at all. The blank slate model is severely incompatible with how biology actually works, and a civilization holding onto it when competitor civilizations are embracing gene editing technology and intelligence augmentation will guarantee failure.