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		bh23ha on Dec 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supercomputer Use at the BGI in China to Study the... News from the future: IQ found to be influenced by a whole mess of genes, and nutrition in parents, and grand parents, and hugely by the environment. And IQ tests found to be very bad at distinguishing between knowledge and intellect.

dawgr on Dec 4, 2010 [–]

News from the future:

P != NP

Does that mean that we shouldn't work towards a proof? Are you implying the Chinese shouldn't bother investigating this because it has no value?

bh23ha on Dec 5, 2010 | [–]

No I'm implying we should favour basic scientific research over specific narrowly focused research.

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