huw comments on New cause area: human intelligence amplification

[huw]

Hi, this has been discussed plenty of times before, often very controversially:

• Genetic Enhancement as a Cause Area

• How to better advocate for genetic enhancement to the EA community

• The Effective Altruist Case for Using Genetic Enhancement to End Poverty

• An instance of white supremacist and Nazi ideology creeping onto the EA Forum

• Most people endorse some form of eugenics

• EA should unequivocally condemn race science

Here are two write-ups from Reflective Altruism, a criticism blog, on the EA Forum’s engagement with this topic area.

I think that more than enough ink has been spilled on this topic on this forum and I don’t see this post adding a lot to it. I think a better version of this post would engage with the existing discussion while treading very carefully around the impacts that discussing eugenics has on the goal of the EA Forum to be a welcoming and inclusive space for everyone. I will leave my object-level thoughts on your post in a different comment.

[TsviBT]

Thanks! (See other comment for my response.)

I think that more than enough ink has been spilled on this topic on this forum and I don’t see this post adding a lot to it.

That’s fair. This post is pretty quickly-written, with the intent of reaching out to EA. The links in the post link to much more substantial thoughts, which I would guess have been absent from the previous discussions.