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flir • yesterday at 10:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Is it worth mentioning that the Flynn Effect seems to have been running backwards lately?

(The drug thing, maybe you've got a point. But in just 20 years?)


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Rudybega • yesterday at 10:50 PM

> But in just 20 years?

Ahh, I think this bit on my part may need some elaboration. Here's my main underlying belief:

We are systematizing biology and turning it into a computationally tractable domain. I think we're going to make more gains in our understanding of it in the next 20 years than we have in the entirety of human existence prior to this moment (that's mainly because our understanding until now has been remarkably poor).

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