• -dsr-@awful.systems
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    11 months ago

    Genetically altering IQ is more or less about flipping a sufficient number of IQ-decreasing variants to their IQ-increasing counterparts. This sounds overly simplified, but it’s surprisingly accurate; most of the variance in the genome is linear in nature, by which I mean the effect of a gene doesn’t usually depend on which other genes are present

    Contradicted by previous text in the same article (diabetes), not to mention have you even opened a college-level genetics text in the last decade?

    Anyway, I would encourage these people to flip their own genome a lot, except that they probably won’t take the minimum necessary precautions of doing so under observation in isolation. “Science is whatever people in white coats say it is, and I bought a nice white coat off Amazon!”

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      11 months ago

      most of the variance in the genome is linear in nature, by which I mean the effect of a gene doesn’t usually depend on which other genes are present

      that person seems homeschooled on absolute bullshit; basic high school biology course thirty-odd years ago was saying otherwise.

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        11 months ago

        that person seems homeschooled on absolute bullshit

        the yudkowsky tradition! cause skimming a book and reconstructing the rest of the knowledge on your gut feelings is a perfectly good substitute for going to fucking school, Eliezer