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I've decided to create a website/community that will focus on improving autonomy of humans.
https://improvingautonomy.wordpress.com
The first goal is to explore how to do intelligence augmentation of humans in safe way (using populations dynamics/etc).
I think that this is both a more likely development path than singleton AIs and also a more desirable one if done well.
Still a work in progress. I'm putting it here so that if people have good arguments that this path should not be developed at all, I would like to hear them before I get too embroiled in it.
By "humans" you mean "individuals", right?
I expect that one of the arguments contra that you will see (I do not subscribe to it) is that highly-capable individuals are just too dangerous. Basically, power can be used not only to separate oneself from the society you don't like, but also to hurt the society you don't like. The contemporary technological society is fragile and a competent malcontent can do terrible damage to it.