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

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Comment author: HughRistik 15 June 2009 11:48:10PM 0 points [-]

Yes, increasing intelligence would increase the variance of quality of outcomes for humanity. And the hope is that intelligence would also increase the mean quality of outcome, such that the expected value would be higher.