adult augmentation 2-3std for the average person seems plausible, but for the few +6std people on earth it might just give +0.2std or +0.3std, which tbc I think is incredibly worthwhile.
Such high diminishing returns in g based on genes seems quite implausible to me, but would be happy if you can point to evidence to the contrary. If it works well for people with average Intelligence, I’d expect it to work at most half as well with +6sd.
Idk I’d be intuitively surprised if adult augmentation would get someone from +6 to +7. I’m like from +0 to +3 is a big difference, and from +6 to +6.3 is an almost as big difference too. But idk maybe not. Maybe partially it’s also that I think that intelligence augmentation interventions get harder once you get into higher intelligence levels. Where there are previously easy improvement possibilities there might later need to be more entangled groups of genes that are good and it’s harder to tune those. And it’s hard to get very good data on what genes working together actually result in very high intelligence because we don’t have that many very smart people.
Such high diminishing returns in g based on genes seems quite implausible to me, but would be happy if you can point to evidence to the contrary. If it works well for people with average Intelligence, I’d expect it to work at most half as well with +6sd.
Idk I’d be intuitively surprised if adult augmentation would get someone from +6 to +7. I’m like from +0 to +3 is a big difference, and from +6 to +6.3 is an almost as big difference too. But idk maybe not. Maybe partially it’s also that I think that intelligence augmentation interventions get harder once you get into higher intelligence levels. Where there are previously easy improvement possibilities there might later need to be more entangled groups of genes that are good and it’s harder to tune those. And it’s hard to get very good data on what genes working together actually result in very high intelligence because we don’t have that many very smart people.