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Let's say we lived in the centuries old, long debunked eugenicist's fantasy you think is reality. We'd sooner use gene editing to make people more empathetic,

Let's say we lived in the centuries old, long debunked eugenicist's fantasy you think is reality. We'd sooner use gene editing to make people more empathetic, briefer in their words, less absolutist, less looking at things as "programmer problems," less engineery. Higher "EQ."

gwern 7y ago
Empathy measures correlate with IQ: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2019-schlegel.pdf#page=4 https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2019-schlegel.pdf#page=4