Lyle-Cantor

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by Lyle-Cantor 7y ago
No one should be surprised, their database is extremely valuable. They have a labeled database of millions of genomes. Once they sequence them all, then they just need to buy Luminosity (which is basically a site full of IQ tests) and find
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Building a Self Driving Car(comma Neo with Openpilot)(youtube.com)
1 points by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago|0 comments
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
God forbid if people were allowed to make their own choices.
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
We will soon have the selection power to select for many traits simultaneously. Also, much of the problem super high IQ people have is the result of being surrounded by people much less capable than themselves. If we seize the high-IQ allel
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
People confuse the normative and the descriptive. Everything you say is basicly correct. But it's horrible so it can't possibly be true. But why should evolution not be horrible? Evolution does not care about our ideology. If we d
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
I don't know. Asian nations like Singapore and Japan have done very well with highly-technical public servants, mathematicians and physicists are often in government in Singapore. Anything that gets technical people into office is good
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
China has orthogonal moral hysterias. Again, someone will do it and they will have an enormous advantage, 8 IQ points per generation at worst and 60+ at best. Considering the effect on the tails of the distribution, the vast majority of sci
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
IQ enhancement is almost the only thing that matters in the genetic engineering story. If we don't allow it, somewhere else will; and it is they who will control future technological progress. Strength matters little in comparison.
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by Lyle-Cantor 9y ago
Patent troll vs the government that enforces patent law, no matter who wins we lose.