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Trevor_Blake comments on Summoning the Least Powerful Genie - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Houshalter 16 September 2015 05:10AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 September 2015 08:23:30AM *  -1 points [-]

Your theory can be tested. The difference between the highest intelligence and lowest intelligence people is profound. Not every highest intelligence person has power over others but some do, and no - not one - lowest intelligence person has power over others. The situation you describe exists now. What throttles should we put on the highest intelligence humans? How much power (social, financial, democratic, military, etc) should the lowest intelligence people be enfranchised with?

I propose this as a thought experiment only.