Cool science thing

[Derived Absurdity]

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It argues that in the future machine intelligence and human genetic intelligence will co-evolve and build off each other in a positive feedback loop, using advanced gene editing and whatnot. Somewhat interesting.

[phe_de]

I'm not a neuroscientist, and I don't really know what causes intelligence.
The article seems to infer that the predisposition for intelligence is purely genetic.
I don't know if it's true, but if it's not, then the article becomes moot.

Unless I lack the intelligence to understand what the author was saying; and he was talking about cyborgism; and direct enhancement of the human mind with artificial intelligence devices. I guess the future will show in what direction the research is heading.

[Derived Absurdity]

No one claims the predisposition for intelligence is purely genetic, but intelligence has a strong genetic component. That's undeniable nowadays.

Unless I lack the intelligence to understand what the author was saying; and he was talking about cyborgism; and direct enhancement of the human mind with artificial intelligence devices.

Um... no? He was talking pretty specifically about genetic enhancements only. Brain interfaces and others of that type only had a few sentences devoted to them, and they were referring to something entirely different.