Gene Smith, $20,000, to create an open-source polygenic predictor for educational attainment and intelligence. You upload your 23andMe results, it tells your your (predicted) IQ. Technology hasn’t advanced to the point where this will be any good—even if everything goes perfectly, the number it gives you will have only the most tenuous connection to your actual IQ (and everyone on Gene’s team agrees with this claim). I’m funding it anyway.
I think there could be far more money in that area (even if it’s not directed at cloning von Neumann in particular), but it’s not happening for political reasons.
@Genesmith has received a $20,000 ACX grant:
I think there could be far more money in that area (even if it’s not directed at cloning von Neumann in particular), but it’s not happening for political reasons.