For starters, why aren’t we already offering the most basic version of this strategy as a workplace health benefit within the rationality / EA community? For example, on their workplace benefits page, OpenPhil says:
We offer a family forming benefit that supports employees and their partners with expenses related to family forming, such as fertility treatment, surrogacy, or adoption. This benefit is available to all eligible employees, regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Seems a small step from there to making “we cover IVF for anyone who wants (even if your fertility is fine) + LifeView polygenic scores” into a standard part of the alignment-research-agency benefits package. Of course, LifeView only offers health scores, but they will also give you the raw genetic data. Processing this genetic data yourself, DIY style, could be made easier—maybe there could be a blog post describing how to use an open-source piece of software and where to find the latest version of EA3, and so forth.
All this might be a lot of trouble for (if you are pessimistic about PGT’s potential) a rather small benefit. We are not talking Von Neumanns here. But it might be worth creating a streamlined community infrastructure around this anyways, just in case the benefit becomes larger as our genetic techniques improve.
You get the same intelligence gain in a way I find considerably less dubious by lifting poor kids out of poverty, giving them access to decent nutrition and safety, and education. Cheaper, too. Also more just. And more diverse.
For starters, why aren’t we already offering the most basic version of this strategy as a workplace health benefit within the rationality / EA community? For example, on their workplace benefits page, OpenPhil says:
Seems a small step from there to making “we cover IVF for anyone who wants (even if your fertility is fine) + LifeView polygenic scores” into a standard part of the alignment-research-agency benefits package. Of course, LifeView only offers health scores, but they will also give you the raw genetic data. Processing this genetic data yourself, DIY style, could be made easier—maybe there could be a blog post describing how to use an open-source piece of software and where to find the latest version of EA3, and so forth.
All this might be a lot of trouble for (if you are pessimistic about PGT’s potential) a rather small benefit. We are not talking Von Neumanns here. But it might be worth creating a streamlined community infrastructure around this anyways, just in case the benefit becomes larger as our genetic techniques improve.
You get the same intelligence gain in a way I find considerably less dubious by lifting poor kids out of poverty, giving them access to decent nutrition and safety, and education. Cheaper, too. Also more just. And more diverse.