Intelligence enhancement
Intelligence enhancement refers to significantly enhancing the intelligence of humans, often by genetic means.
Progress
Polygenic score
From Embryo selection for intelligence:
the best 2016 polygenic score could achieve a gain of ~3 IQ points when selecting out of 10
Metrics
- RS 210 - Stuart Ritchie on “Conceptual objections to IQ testing”
- The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
External links
General
- The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement
- Converging Cognitive Enhancements
- Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges
- Consider raising IQ to do good
Genetics
Angles to improve genes include: mate selection, gamete selection, gene editing, genomic imprinting.
- Embryo selection for intelligence
- Embryo selection & editing for intelligence (discussion)
- Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement: Curiosity or Game-changer? by Bostrom and Shulman
- Stephen Hsu on Cognitive Genomics
- Timeline of genetic engineering in humans
Drugs
- The Algernon Argument
- How to biohack your intelligence — with everything from sex to modafinil to MDMA
Other
- Intelligence Amplification Interview
- Nick Bostrom also mentions this in Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios.
- Smart Policy: Cognitive Enhancement and the Public Interest
- The range of human capacities
Interesting quotes
From Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement: Curiosity or Game-changer?:
On balance, it seems that the positive externalities [of genetic selection] would dominate – at least this is commonly assumed in the context of other interventions aimed at improving cognitive performance, such as education and removal of neurotoxic pollutants, which are commonly subsidized for this reason.
