Comments on: What could be a more interesting question?

By: Steven C.

Steven C. — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:50:08 +0000

The Chinese government might be willing to fund that kind of research, but even more willing to fund research on how to make their own people smarter.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:36:22 +0000

Genetics is a crap shoot. Great. There goes the entire discipline of statistics. Heredity isn’t a great predictor for individuals, look at me for example, but it seems to work well in aggregate.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:12:40 +0000

“We have no idea what to select for and even less idea of what would be ‘needed’ several decades in the future.” Well, we kinda know what we don't want.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:23:39 +0000

There hasn’t been a dumb Sassoon, Rothschild, Strakosch, Roosevelt, Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Khan, Baruch, Schiff, or Sieff for three hundred years. Why is that?

By: Mike-SMO

Mike-SMO — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 04:36:08 +0000

Genetics is “cool”, but it is a crap shoot. I suspect that we could produce a mass of brilliant drknes, but creativity and leadership still seem to be elusive. We can probably eliminate the defectives and diseases but most glorious dynasties soon run their course. Schools accept multitudes, fewer graduate and eveb fewer accomplish ebough to be notable. We have no idea what to select for and even less idea of what would be “needed” several decades in the future. I’d guess that eliminating the medical problems while maintaining an effective education and selection process would be more likely to assist our species to prosper than would a program designed to produce “smart idiots”. Godd luck designing a new man when we bave no idea what we want or will need.

By: McChuck

McChuck — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:02:33 +0000

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
– ancient proverb

By: Adept

Adept — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:26:09 +0000

“Right-wingers may or may not believe in racial differences in intelligence, some do, some don’t, but lefties most certainly do”

I believe that, to a fair approximation, all people believe in racial differences in intelligence, regardless of where they happen to be located on the political spectrum. Some right-wingers are honest with themselves, and some are not. That is all.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:09:23 +0000

The left will block funding for stuff like this, because they are terrified of what they might find. Right-wingers may or may not believe in racial differences in intelligence, some do, some don’t, but lefties most certainly do – if they really believed in the blank slate, they would be happy to have people look into stuff like this. I mean, if there really are no differences, why not look into this and dispel the myths once and for all? We all know the answer.