I've gotten several emails about the Vice interview of Geoffrey Miller on BGI's Cognitive Genetics Project. It's a sexy piece, and no surprise given Miller's fascination with the future of China and science (something I share to a moderate extent). But for the love of God please watch this Steve Hsu video first before reading that.
The problem that seems to crop up with this project, which has been in the works for years, is that any public mention blows up into extreme hyperbole. And yet when I've talked to Steve about it he's often much more modest about the possibilities, even if the ambitions of the people involved in the endeavor are rather grand. I'm also moderately worried that the likely low probability of implementation of the sort of embryo screening for a quantitative trait like intelligence is going to confuse people as to the more probable and ubiquitous ...
