Great post. In the running for your best ever.
“To put a random number on it, I doubt that anything more than one-in-a-million g-factor is required to be a potential world-class genius, implying at least six thousand potential Einsteins running around today.”
Let’s hope it’s not one-in-a-hundred-billion. Because then we may never see another potential Einstein.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why no one else in the intelligent, persistent-maximizing space wants to start assembly line cloning/breeding our smartest existential risk minimizers besides me (and possibly one other person, I don’t know if they’re public about it). If this happened in the next few years, a lot of us could benefit from the potential accelerated breakthroughs starting 25-35 years from now. I think smart, open-minded folks (Eliezer, Robin, Aubrey) need to justify to us why they’re not pounding the podium on this one NOW, at least anonymously.
Great post. In the running for your best ever. “To put a random number on it, I doubt that anything more than one-in-a-million g-factor is required to be a potential world-class genius, implying at least six thousand potential Einsteins running around today.” Let’s hope it’s not one-in-a-hundred-billion. Because then we may never see another potential Einstein.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why no one else in the intelligent, persistent-maximizing space wants to start assembly line cloning/breeding our smartest existential risk minimizers besides me (and possibly one other person, I don’t know if they’re public about it). If this happened in the next few years, a lot of us could benefit from the potential accelerated breakthroughs starting 25-35 years from now. I think smart, open-minded folks (Eliezer, Robin, Aubrey) need to justify to us why they’re not pounding the podium on this one NOW, at least anonymously.