I got caught on that quote tooā¦
Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanityās collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like āfigure out how to control digital superintelligenceā.
Science-fiction solutions for science-fiction problems!
Letās see what the comments say!
Considering current human distributions and a lack of 160+ IQ people having written off sub-100 IQ populations as morally useless [ā¦]
Dude are you aware where you are posting.
Just hope it never happens, like nuke wars?
Yeah thatās what ran the Cold War, hopes and dreams. JFC I keep forgetting these are kids born long after 1989.
Could you do all the research on a boat in the ocean? Excuse the naive question.
No, please keep asking the naive questions, itās what provides fodder for comments like this .
(regarding humans having ā[F]ixed skull sizeā and can therefore a priori not compete with AI):
Artificial wombs may remove this bottleneck.
This points to another implied SF solution. Itās already postulated by these people that humans are not having enough babies, or rather the right kind of humans arenāt (wink wink). If we assume that they donāt adhere to the Platonic ideal that women are simply wombs and all traits are inherited from males, then to breed superbabies you need buy-in from the moms. Considering how hard it is for these people to have a normal conversation with the fairer sex, them both managing to convince a partner to have a baby and let some quack from El Salvador mess with its genes seems insurmountable. Artificial wombs will resolve this nicely. Just do a quick test at around puberty to determine the God-given IQ level of a female, then harvest her eggs and implant them into artificial wombs. The less intelligent ones can provide eggs for the āBetaā and āGammaā modelsā¦
But you donāt go from a 160 IQ person with a lot of disagreeability and ambition, who ends up being a big commercial player or whatnot, to 195 IQ and suddenly get someone who just sits in their room for a decade and then speaks gibberish into a youtube livestream and everyone dies, or whatever.
These people are insane.
esprit dāescalier
this whole āsuperbabies will save us from AIā presupposes that the superbabies are immune to the pull of LW ideas. Just as LW are discounting global warming, fascism etc to focus on runaway AI, who says superbabies wonāt have a similar problem? Itās just one step up the metaphorical ladder:
LW: āugh normies donāt understand the x-risk of AI!ā
Superbabies: āugh our LW parents donāt understand the x-risk of Evangelion being actually, like, real!ā