Comment by Ori on An Alien God · 2008-09-28T14:59:00.000Z · LW · GW

"It really bothers you that a mindless, unthinking process is smarter than you, doesn't it." Up: Caledonian

Taken into effect that the "blind watchmaker" has been working on every organism on earth for billions of years, the complexity and diversity of the same environment, it is no surprise that humans would want to take the quick and easy path. The outcome will probably be disastrous which is kind of amusing.

Comment by Ori on My Childhood Death Spiral · 2008-09-15T08:09:50.000Z · LW · GW

It would be interesting to read a post that describes how a future society would look like if everyone was given the ability of todays top 2% regarding IQ. What would happen, implications, economic output, happiness and so on.