Risks of enhanced human intelligence include insanity, social isolation, and megalomania.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
http://io9.gizmodo.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984
Risks of enhanced human intelligence include insanity, social isolation, and megalomania.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
http://io9.gizmodo.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984
Meh. I tire of this “if we make ourselves better there might be terrible, awful, never-get-over consequences.” If we don’t make ourselves better, there definitely WILL be.
Interesting that when you skip over a bunch of unsurmountable obstacles, it’s possible to say something that sounds as if it should be meaningful. But isn’t.
How will feeding the augmented brain be achieved so that it can run at the augmented speed? At present thinking takes about 20% of the energy produced. A doubling of energy use would see the rest of the body starved. Just keep it in stasis, the brainpower is all we need.
The skull generally can’t be stretched, difficult to see where to run the extra blood vessels to supply the food, oxygen, hormones, and the veins to dispose the wastes.
I think they are talking about electronic, rather than biological, enhancement.
Now I want to write a story in which mental enhancement experiments are treated like a space program, with participants selected for stability (but also for prosociality), and the tendency to megalomaniac scheming is defeated by the subject’s powerful commitment to the wellbeing of other people.
Participants selected would have to be a definite, I think. I understood them to be talking about electronic enhancements, but t if your wetware can’t process the incoming enhancements due to plain old chemistry, what is the use?