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Digital brains beat biological ones because diffusion is too slow
Robert Mcdougal10

How do we know this "propensity for language" isn't an emergent property that is a function of neuron count past a certain point?

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Digital brains beat biological ones because diffusion is too slow
Robert Mcdougal10

"We can probably raise IQ into the low or mid 200s with genetic engineering."

So you don't think 300 to 900 IQ humans are possible? You think 250 is the max of a human?

Speed of thinking isn't the only component of g-factor, it's also memory, the size of the recall-able knowledge space, and how many variables you could juggle in your head at once which imo could keep on getting larger if brains and bodies could also keep getting bigger. Do non-human brains think at a slower rate than bonobos and chimps? Young non-human primates and other animals have pretty ... (read more)

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2GeneSmith
I think it’s plausible we could go higher but I’m fairly certain the linear model will break down at some point. I don’t know exactly where , but somewhere above the current human range is a good guess. You’ll likely need a “validation generation” to go beyond that, meaning a generation or very high IQ people who can study themselves and each other to better understand how real intelligence has deviated from the linear model at high IQ ranges. Not true. Humans have an inbuilt propensity for language in a way that gorillas and other non-human primates don’t. There are other examples like this.