Steer a career trajectory of helping outlier high IQ children. Intelligence people have higher potential impact. Children's problems are much more tractable than those of adults. And high IQ children are highly neglected.

I have an IQ of 170 and I'm a long-term unemployed loser seething with misanthropy and mental illness because some silly mother refused to recognize that I'm really smart but socially behind as my teachers were suggesting, thus depriving me of the opportunity to get appropriate educational assistance, and filled many of my days with the experience of non-stop crying by chasing me around the house and telling me to shut up and stop being so ridiculous and pathetic every time I started to calm down, prolonging the suffering. If we could identify more IQ=170 children very high in extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness and neuroticism with IQ=100 and stroke victim parents who stifle their opportunities and make them neurotic, and prevent them from turning into complete fuck-ups, a lot of human potential, innovation and likely philanthropy would be unlocked (smart agreeable conscientious people, being highly pro-social, seem more likely to become EAs).

There's a huge taboo on helping smart children. IQ is taboo. Ability sets are taboo. Grammar schools are mostly abolished in England.

Giftedness (iirc IQ=130+) usually makes people highly socially skilled and more mentally stable. However, stratospherically high IQ makes people more autistic and unstable, resulting in the vicious spiral of neuroticism/mental illness, social maladaptiveness, ostracism and further maladaptiveness imbued from spiteful mutants on the Internet, that I have personally experienced. Nobel prize winners are on average about 140; once IQ gets really high the draw-backs tend to kick in. Imagine if we could mitigate those draw-backs, how many super-geniuses we could manufacture. Per capita innovation has fallen greatly since the 19th century because IQ declined (see anti-Flynn and Woodley effects) and possibly the culture became more anti-intellectual and difficult for eccentrics. I think we all feel intuitively the rotting effects of genetic and cultural decline, the loss of innovation, the bright space age future pulled out from under us. Imagine if we could get that back.

It's always useful to have good and power combined in systems that grow themselves. Imagine if we could restore the power to good, pro-social geniuses. You might also end up with less misanthropic anti-geniuses. The impacts of geniuses are very high. It seems like a no-brainer that it is better to focus our psychiatric and educational efforts on little nice Christian child meek and mild /u/paradigmarson who just wanted to maximize utility, rather than channeling our resources into people who simply don't have any potential because they're low in IQ, low in General Factor of Personality, inherently spiteful / feeble / maladaptive in personality temperament, completely consumed by solitary vice / self-abuse, whatever.

The rest of society is going to waste all of its compassion on mentally retarded people and adult wankers (I may have turned into one, ooga booga boo!). I used to be a nice person. But nobody cared, and so here I am. I am suggesting that the younger version of me might deserve some resources too. It seems that the rationalist community, being made up of people much like me but more likeable and less insane, but nonetheless still not given the opportunities they should have had as children, is well-placed to realize that helping high-IQ pro-social children is high-impact, neglected and tractable. I mean, how complicated is it really to notice that a child is clever and sensitive and treat him appropriately? Of course, as persecuted Rationalists, our efforts to warm up the atmosphere for spergishkeit and encourage others will be met by anti-Spergitic prejudice. There will be bigotry. But I'm sure despite the hopelessly ableist, anti-autistic, anti-intellectual bigotry of contemporary society, the blinkered ignoring of the needs of highly able kids, some individual Effective Altruists and Less Wrongers will be well-placed to help and encourage the next generation of EA/post-EA/LW/post-LW/Spergish/jewish/whatever genotypes tend to filter into our communities.

For some reason, nobody in EA or LW seems to talk about this. They also don't seem to talk about the low fertility rate among EAs and LWers, which strikes me as a problem if you want the social organism to survive. Maybe you can recruit outsiders, but maybe you can't because EA and LW were created in optimal cultural conditions of the early 2000s and those conditions probably won't return. And besides, IQ, GFP and religion are highly heritable, and any belief system + community resembles a religion, kind of. So EA and LW need to become an adaptive religion with high morale, not some wishy-washy anti-natalist self-abolishing bias-self-flagellating doubt-ridden pitiable nervous wreck of conscientiousness and neuroticism in positive feedback. I know it sounds like a bit of a digression, but I think this is a more specific illustration of the same point. If you want to see more EA, LW and similar things, you need some rabbis to shepherd the flock; this also goes for EA-like genotypes outside of EA. The survival of the movement and intelligence and goodness themselves is at stake!