Comment on Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:07:04 GMT

I had exactly the same thought.

Also, on a more pragmatic and personal level, increasing average human intelligence increases the probability of immortality and other "surprisingly good" outcomes of humans or other intelligences optimizing our world, such as universal beauty, health, happiness and better quality of life. This needn't be through superintelligence, it could just be through the intelligence/wealth production correlation.

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