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Also, the somewhat more troubling genetic explanation for individual's achievements (e.g. von Neumann), based on anecdotes from "some guy who knew him" and "some guy who works at MIT". Genetics surely has a part to play in intelligence, but to say that it will turn out to be the determining factor in leu of resources or environment seems to me a bit of an extraordinary claim.

I love and agree with the premise that AI augmented people will be enormously more productive than traditionally intelligent people, but I think that access to educational and child rearing resources will define the difference, not genetics.




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