IL comments on On Doing the Impossible - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2008 03:13PM

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Comment author: IL 06 October 2008 11:10:48PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer, I remember an earlier post of yours, when you said something like: "If I would never do impossible things, how could I ever become stronger?" That was a very inspirational message for me, much more than any other similar sayings I heard, and this post is full of such insights.

Anyway, on the subject of human augmentation, well, what about them? If you are talking about a timescale of decades, than intelligence augmentation does seems like a worthy avenue of investment (it doesn't has to be full scale neural rewiring, it could be just smarter nootropics).