Genetically Engineering Super-Intelligence

IQ has more to do with wealth/quality of life than DNA. If AI can bring about post-scarcity then the average human IQ will go up and the AI will render themselves obsolete. I sure hope they aren't reading this.

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Why does it have to be genetically engineered when it occurs naturally? We merely have to teach girls to select for the correct phenotype.

>>9079096
>IQ has more to do with wealth/quality of life than DNA. If AI can bring about post-scarcity then the average human IQ will go up and the AI will render themselves obsolete. I sure hope they aren't reading this.

IQ correlates with wealth and quality of life, because it is causal. The idea that environment plays a majority role in intelligence is pushed by political ideologues in academia (psychology, sociology, and anthropology being the biggest offenders).

Here is a Google Talk by Steve Hsu on this topic. I can give you academic citations if you wish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jZENi1ed8

>>9079129

>Why does it have to be genetically engineered when it occurs naturally? We merely have to teach girls to select for the correct phenotype.

Teach girls to have kids with the nerds instead of dumb hot guys? That's going against 250,000 years of human evolution, at least. I wish it were possible.

Genetic engineering, in the case laid out in this podcast, would be removal-of-errors only. Nothing like adding in strange mutations. The goal is to reduce "genetic load" - errors which theoretically cause the majority of IQ variation

>>9079147
>The idea that environment plays a majority role in intelligence is pushed by political ideologues
I can turn that right back at you and say proponents for IQ, eg. Jordan Peterson, and their claim that its relationship to wealth is causal is politically motivated. There's no evidence on either side of the divide that can't be attributed to ideological bias and some Ted Talk isn't going to change that.