The cause of human intelligence amplification (aka HIA, human intelligence enhancement, human intelligence augmentation) seems to have very little discussion on this forum; those terms (in quotations) give only a handful of search results. I think this is a big mistake. In particular, I think that reprogenetics is a good cause area that should get more resources.

Reprogenetics is biotechnology used to empower parents to make genomic choices on behalf of their future children. Reprogenetics would most likely work for HIA, is morally good, and is likely technically feasible and acceleratable.

Let's have a discussion about this. We can talk here in comments. If you have substantial thoughts / a strong position against, we could have a discussion or debate on a call and post it to YouTube.

At a meta level, it may be that EA as a whole (or all the individual EAs, mysteriously) have simply dismissed HIA in general or reprogenetics in particular. In other words, some decision has already been made to not pursue those causes, and this decision is not open for discussion or debate. That would prima facie go against the ideals of EA. I think that would be ok [...]

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