I can’t really speak to your specific experience too well other than to simply say I’m sorry you had to go through that. We actually see that in general, mental health prevalence actually declines with increasing IQ. The one exception to this is aspbergers.
I do think it’s going to be very important to address mental health issues as well. Many mental health conditions are reasonably editable; we could reduce the prevalence of some by 50%+ with editing.
That makes sense. This may just be wishful thinking on my part/trying to see a positive that doesn’t exist, but psychotic tendencies might have higher representation among the population you’re interested in than the trend you’ve described might suggest. Taking the very small, subjective sample that is “the best” mathematician of each of the previous four centuries (Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Grothendieck), 50% of them (Newton and Grothendieck) had some major psychotic experiences (admittedly vastly later in life than is typical for men).
Again, I’m probably being too cautious, but I’m just very apprehensive about approaching the creation of sentient life with the attitude that increased iq = increased well-being. If that intution is incorrect, it would have catastrophic consequences.
I can’t really speak to your specific experience too well other than to simply say I’m sorry you had to go through that. We actually see that in general, mental health prevalence actually declines with increasing IQ. The one exception to this is aspbergers.
I do think it’s going to be very important to address mental health issues as well. Many mental health conditions are reasonably editable; we could reduce the prevalence of some by 50%+ with editing.
That makes sense. This may just be wishful thinking on my part/trying to see a positive that doesn’t exist, but psychotic tendencies might have higher representation among the population you’re interested in than the trend you’ve described might suggest. Taking the very small, subjective sample that is “the best” mathematician of each of the previous four centuries (Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Grothendieck), 50% of them (Newton and Grothendieck) had some major psychotic experiences (admittedly vastly later in life than is typical for men).
Again, I’m probably being too cautious, but I’m just very apprehensive about approaching the creation of sentient life with the attitude that increased iq = increased well-being. If that intution is incorrect, it would have catastrophic consequences.