lavalamp comments on Intelligence enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 15 June 2009 08:23:42PM *  2 points [-]

Why is that? Of course we all know that the average IQ can't be 10 points higher than the average IQ, but that would be a silly way to interpret what he said, and I can't think of any mathematical reason why the new average couldn't become, say, 110 instead of 100... (I can think of lots of practical reasons, though) (EDIT: and of course I mean on today's scale, as others have pointed out)