From: Tim Bates (tbates@karri.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 04 1999 - 04:53:20 MDT
>> Eliezer wrote:
>> I'd love to work on neurohacking but unfortunately I expect enough
>> public and governmental interference to make the point moot. Nobody's
>> going to let me experiment on 11-year-olds, which is where the most good
>> could be done.
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> I think you may be wrong. As soon as the genes responsible for intelligence
> are identified (~50% +/- (some disputable amount) of intelligence is
> inherited) we are going to have to face up to the facts that
> (a) parents are going to want to genotype and select "intelligent"
> children (after all you are "investing" ~$500K in raising them).
> (b) engineer them directly for intelligence.
>
> The writing is on the wall....
You are correct Robert.
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