I am not thinking at the level of particular humans, but of the basic architecture of the human brain.
It appears that you can raise human geniuses from average parents if you train them early enough. And while human intelligence is hereditary, there isn’t that much genetic drift within the human population.
And I’m unconvinced that in most cases it’s “functional person cannot learn concept X” as opposed to: “it’ll take functional person a lot more time/effort/energy/attention to learn concept X”.
It may not be economical for most people to learn linear algebra (but I suspect most babies can in principle be raised so that they know linear algebra as adults).
>It appears that you can raise human geniuses from average parents if you train them early enough. And while human intelligence is hereditary, there isn’t that much genetic drift within the human population.
I am not thinking at the level of particular humans, but of the basic architecture of the human brain.
It appears that you can raise human geniuses from average parents if you train them early enough. And while human intelligence is hereditary, there isn’t that much genetic drift within the human population.
And I’m unconvinced that in most cases it’s “functional person cannot learn concept X” as opposed to: “it’ll take functional person a lot more time/effort/energy/attention to learn concept X”.
It may not be economical for most people to learn linear algebra (but I suspect most babies can in principle be raised so that they know linear algebra as adults).
>It appears that you can raise human geniuses from average parents if you train them early enough. And while human intelligence is hereditary, there isn’t that much genetic drift within the human population.
Don’t make me call Gwern!
Do please link the relevant post. I’d like to change my mind on this.
Ignore the other links I gave, I’ve just recalled a Steve Hsu post that is more to the point at hand: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2010/05/psychometric-thresholds-for-physics-and.html
The Blank Slate is a good polemic on the topic. The Nurture Assumption is also good.
Gwern links:
https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/index
https://www.gwern.net/reviews/McNamara