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If that's actually correct, we should be able to just breed a superintelligence. Maybe not one as powerful as an AI gone foom, but still orders of magnitude higher than us mortals.
Unless he claims at some point that humans reached some sort of hard limit, but it seems vastly more likely that huge brains are costly and we're the point where the tradeoffs balanced.
Supposedly human brain size is limited by the skulls that will fit out of our mothers, and human babies are actually born premature relative to other species because it's only when we are premature that our skulls will still fit out.
Of course, we have cesarean births now, so...
Great points.
And, since we're born premature as you said, there's already a partial workaround even if you need "natural" births for some reason (potential complications from the surgery?)
That's not really a new idea :P all those sci fi worlds with brain bugs and future humans worshiping the morlock king knew that.