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The speaker considers whether humans could be enhanced to IQ 300 so that they understand matters as readily as superintelligent AI does.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“I mean, then there are all of these other questions like, can we just enhance ourselves till we have IQ 300 and it's just as obvious to us as it is to the super intelligent AI?”Play from 2:19:45Report a misattribution
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