[ExI] Science

[William Flynn Wallace]

Not finding out about gender, race, and other individual differences will
slow or halt the progress towards individualized medicine.  This is not
only sad but scary.  bill w

On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 2:23 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Science has unfortunately been engulfed and consumed by the same political
> framework that has most of the Western world currently in its grip to one
> degree or another, and is no longer just about science.   As a long time
> reader of that once stellar publication, it's disheartening to witness.
>  They're also unfortunately not the only premiere journal to fall victim to
> it.
>
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 3:15 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't know how many of you read Science, a few probably.  The last
>> two issues have been interesting.  Two weeks ago there was an article
>> on stopping AI research.  This week the lead article was "Panel urges
>> caution in tying social, behavioral traits to genes"  Experts split on
>> whether risks of perpetuating racism mean group comparisons should not
>> be done
>> ****
>> The panel ultimately concluded that “absent the relevant compelling
>> justification(s)—a criterion that some of us think will never be
>> met—researchers not conduct, funders not fund, and journals not
>> publish research on sensitive phenotypes that compares groups defined
>> by race, ethnicity, or genetic ancestry” where it “could easily be
>> misunderstood as race or ethnicity.”
>> ****
>> There are differences between groups and (in some cases) for
>> well-understood reasons.  For example, Clark's work showed that the UK
>> population was subjected to intense selection for whatever
>> psychological traits led to wealth.  But given that AI is expected to
>> outclass the best of us, it probably does not make any difference.
>>
>> Keith
>>
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