That Alien Message — LessWrong

Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140 (on our scale). Potential Einsteins are o…

x That Alien Message — LessWrong Science and Rationality Fiction AI Boxing (Containment) Simulation Hypothesis Bayesianism Parables & Fables AI Frontpage 436 That Alien Message by Eliezer Yudkowsky 22nd May 2008 12 min read 178 436 Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140 (on our scale). Potential Einsteins are one-in-a-thousand, not one-in-a-million; and they grow up in a school system suited, if not to them personally, then at least to bright kids. Calculus is routinely taught in sixth grade. Albert Einstein, himself, still li

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