Excellent article all around - I wish more people wrote this way. The author initially puts forth a thesis, "Any simple major enhancement to human intelligence is a net evolutionary disadvantage." - and then sets forth to both support it, while simultaneously identifying all of the major issues with this concept, the possible loopholes, and touching on all the popular memes that the HN crown will likely want to bring up (modafinil) and examining them through that lense of "If it's so great, why didn't we evolve that direction."
The author is opinionated, controversial, entertaining, and educational - with citations to boot.
Yep - awesome author. I'll definitely be taking a look at some of his other articles. IMHO - the reason for the lack of IQ right now is that evolution is slow. We haven't really needed high IQ (that badly) for more than, say, 500 years - which is a ridiculously small amount of time.
I'll definitely be taking a look at some of his other articles.
I've noticed his user name here on HN and over on Wikipedia for a while. I was just doing some more browsing around for his writings, prompted by the article submitted here today. I see "My Mistakes"
The author is opinionated, controversial, entertaining, and educational - with citations to boot.