[icapybara]

> China is suspected to engage in bioengineering for their soldiers and it's not a stretch to speculate they also seek such synthetic advantages with their vast armies of engineers and scientists. This would lay fertile ground for secret breakthroughs in, e.g., QC.

In which a HN commenter proclaims that China can build a working quantum computer by bioengineering their scientists to be smarter.

[mandragon]

I speculated that they may seek to use eugenics, nootropics or other methods to enhance the performance of their (vast) pool of scientists and engineers. This would offer a strategic advantage in accelerating such development, but would assure nothing.

The phrasing of your response re-interpretating/rephrasing my statement is misleading/inaccurate.