You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lumifer comments on Open thread, December 7-13, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: polymathwannabe 07 December 2015 02:47PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (223)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 December 2015 03:04:10PM 5 points [-]

How good do you think you'd be at raising a child who is a great deal smarter than any previous human?

Let's assume you're sane enough to not resent the child's superintelligence. Still, what does the child need?

Tentative suggestion: people who are interested in the project should aim for at least a dozen superintelligent children in the first generation so that at least they have some company.

Comment author: Lumifer 08 December 2015 06:10:27PM 2 points [-]

That starts to remind me of Ender's Game series, in particular Shadow of the Hegemon.