Future of Humanity Institute Machine Intelligence Research Institute Center for Applied Rationality #header Main Posts Comments Discussion Posts Comments Less Wrong is a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality. Please visit our About page for more information. That Alien Message 111 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 May 2008 05:55AM .meta Followup to : Einstein's Speed Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140 (on our scale).  Potential Einsteins are one-in-a-thousand, not one-in-a-million; and they grow up in a school system suited, if not to them personally, then at least to bright kids.  Calculus is routinely taught in sixth grade.  Albert Einstein, himself, still lived and still made approximately the same discoveries, but his work no longer s...