In 2014 I attended the meeting Human Capital, Genetics and Behavior at the University of Chicago, organized and hosted by economist James Heckman’s institute. Here are links to my blog posts about the meeting: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2014/04/human-capital-genetics-and-behavior.html
At 41:00 "I think this is really bad news for us because I think we should not waste any time doing science. We should just select for future scientists and not waste any more time ourselves." {crowd laughs, James Lee says it's fun to do science}
I think this is actually right. Scientists should be focused on the most important and high impact research areas. We should want to make the world much better and reduce existential risk. So, I think accelerating AI might be counterproduct. Aside from accelerating intelligence with AI, genetic engineering seems like the way to go even if we care a whole lot about the importance of science. Doing science yourself seems inefficient longterm because we can make smart people. People with 200+ IQs are going to be way more productive scientifically and discover the secrets of the universe if AI doesn't first.
At 41:00 "I think this is really bad news for us because I think we should not waste any time doing science. We should just select for future scientists and not waste any more time ourselves." {crowd laughs, James Lee says it's fun to do science}
I think this is actually right. Scientists should be focused on the most important and high impact research areas. We should want to make the world much better and reduce existential risk. So, I think accelerating AI might be counterproduct. Aside from accelerating intelligence with AI, genetic engineering seems like the way to go even if we care a whole lot about the importance of science. Doing science yourself seems inefficient longterm because we can make smart people. People with 200+ IQs are going to be way more productive scientifically and discover the secrets of the universe if AI doesn't first.
https://www.parrhesia.co/p/cognitive-enhancement-as-research
I'm working on the science of making smart people ;-)
Separately, I'm working on the science of making smart machines 8-)