Message from @Seatoast
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Mainly because it will have a vanishingly small effect on the already very smart, and greater effects the dumber the patient.
Or we could just genetically alter people so they don't suck
(Drugs that modify cognitive abilities tend to work in this way.)
Make stem cells great again
If you think tablets will get people screeching, germline editing would be something else entirely.
Its much eauser to alter your will to work and make it then modify your IQ
IQ is mostly heritable and efforts to increase it have thus far failed.
Huge, bipartisan programs in the US all met with unequivocal failure.
For the simple reason that there is not much one can do.
If you show your kids the will to work
IQ is highly heritable, and only gets more heritable the older you are.
And you give them a better shot then you had
They will do the same
Yes.
Well, not always, but yes.
But you have to always instill that idea
You can duck that up just as quick by giving your kids whatever they want
By not holding them accountable for the actions
Not giving them responsibility then punishing them for not meeting them
High intensity first person shooters are certainly not designed to do that, yet they enhance visual acuity and IQ.
(Where games designed to do so failed.)
Unlike a whole bunch of other woo that will be pushed on you, that shit actually has quite a significant effect.
And is actually fun.
@Grumplebee, ^
I'm serious, in the paper I read it was a 6 point enhancement, which is huge for things like this.
I agree
Normally even 2 points is huge.
Especially compared to the 0 points that such efforts normally give you.
An even more interesting example is synesthesia training, which failed to give the trainees synesthesia.
But guess what it did give them? An average 12 point increase in IQ.
Which is completely unheard of.
The common factor I see emerging in interventions that actually increase IQ is that they were never designed to increase IQ.
When it comes to passing on your genes, epigenetics will give you a headache.
a fucking party is suing the biggest country in the world