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LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4,"

www.lesswrong.com Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible — LessWrong

TL;DR version • In the course of my life, there have been a handful of times I discovered an idea that changed the way I thought about the world. The…

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This is quite a grandiose plan for someone writing a LessWrong blog post. And there’s a decent chance it won’t work out for either technical reasons or because I can't find the resources and talent to help me solve all the technical challenges.
The phrase "technical reasons" is doing an absolutely majestic amount of work in this sentence.
- don't forget the bit where anyone who thinks this idea leads to racist stupidity just hates science
  
  Looking forward to LW articles with titles like "Ashkenazification via engineered viruses as a solution for African poverty: here's why it might work"
  
  LWers love Ashkenazi so much they'll happily have some even without the Ashke.
- If only he were neither constrained by technical hurdles or resources, dang.

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