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

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Comment author: derekz 15 June 2009 08:38:00PM -1 points [-]

Well if you are really only interested in raising the average person's "IQ" by 10 points, it's pretty hard to change human nature (so maybe Bostrom was on the right track).

Perhaps if somehow video games could embed some lesson about rationality in amongst the dumb slaughter, that could help a little -- but people would probably just buy the games without the boring stuff instead.