The author, Greg Cochran, a physicist
by training who transitioned into genetics and anthropology, is one of our most
innovative scientific thinkers. The main insight here is that much is already
possible in this direction, and other elements are probably close. China has
major research efforts into human intelligence currently underway. Another
blogger I read, Steve Hsu, a physics professor at Oregon, http://infoproc.blogspot.com/, is
involved in consulting on one of their projects. After seeking samples
worldwide, they are now sequencing the genomes of people with 145+ IQs (top
tenth of a percent). That's a 1480 on the old SAT (Harvard's average was 1350).
If we continue to play our petty social status games, for example political
correctness, we will not only be outcompeted--"we will sleep with the
Neanderthals."
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