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The Science of Intelligence Is Only a Part of the Human Condition
I'm still not convinced that more intelligence is always better if you want to create beauty in this world. At the population level, we do need to look at IQ tests to help people and to also inspire us to take on some of these extremely difficult scientific questions. I can't advise anybody on that level of what your passion is. But I can say, if you're interested in psychology or science around the big questions of consciousness and intelligence and psychiatric illness, we haven't really talked about brain illnesses. So it could well be that the so-called IQ pill will come from a pharmaceutical company trying to develop a drug for Alzheimer's disease.