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The ethics department kind prevents you from hammering baby skulls.
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*kinda
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What about trans-orbital lobotomies?
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>hitting a kid on the head to iqmaxx xhim
seems more like a soviet joke than a biological possibility
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>>4335913Not the only way to research acquired savant syndrome thoughever. Besides, if they're noticeably dim or their skin is the colour of poop they're probably not going to make it very far in a eugenic society anyway.
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to iqmaxx someone youd need to make them produce more neurons and more connections and train them in a wide range of intellectual topics; so being extremely healthy and hitting the gym regularly (BDNF protein) and studying many things all the time
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>>4335948What if you use electrical current to kill specific neurons? That would be more precise.
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>>4335956our understanding of the brain is not advanced enough to do that while knowing what we are doing.
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>>4335972Yeah but we take a thousand NBs and individually zap certain parts of the brain. Then study the effects.
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>>4335987no one would volunteer cause the probability of success would be astronomically low since we are uninformed.
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>>4335956It could work I suppose, but almost every known case of acquired savant syndrome involves some sort of brain injury so it seems easier to induce it through blunt force than all of that sophisticated science-y stuff.
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>>4336025But it's also not as precise and precision is very important in this context.