From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 22:28:13 MST
For the record, the impression I got from GATTACA was that genetic
engineering worked for physical strength to the extent that an average
genemod human would be in, say, the top 1% relative to today's
distribution of physiques, but that intelligence engineering would be only
the top 10% if it worked at all. Thus a not-very-exceptional exceptional
human could easily outcompete an average genemod for brains, but it would
be a surprising coincidence if this natural-born prodigy also had a
competitive physique.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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