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

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Comment author: Annoyance 16 June 2009 06:52:49PM 0 points [-]

Increasing intelligence without increasing people's ability to use it properly isn't going to help much.

Consider how poorly physicists do when trying to evaluate paranormal claims, as opposed to magicians.