From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 04:36:31 MST
Anton Sherwood wrote:
> http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/cochran/overclocking.html
> An essay by one Greg Cochran suggesting that the concentration
> of several hereditary nerve disorders among Ashkenazim is a result
> of selection for intelligence. (He doesn't say sexual selection,
> but that would make the most sense.)
>
> I was reminded of the `law' proposed years ago on Extropians
> to the effect that enhancements don't come for nothing.
And before anyone even asks, the answer is "Yes".
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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