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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jan 22, 2018 7:43:43 GMT
No reason to object to this at all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 7:53:42 GMT
The one problem with this is that the pills may be only accessible to those who can afford them, at a great price. So that our current hierarchy may in the future become biologically entrenched, and the poor may as well be another species entirely, whilst the people who were capable of affording the pills may deem it even more justifiably than they currently do to oppress and brutalise the poor. So I'm not sure on this one. Also, human intelligence is apt to become obsolete within the next several decades, as AI will be making all the important decisions, and even with enhanced intelligence, humans will become useless.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jan 22, 2018 8:01:36 GMT
The one problem with this is that the pills may be only accessible to those who can afford them, at a great price. I doubt this. There would be too much demand and I'm guessing most governments would end up funding them for the masses. There are some discoveries that would be so overwhelmingly beneficial to mankind as a whole that only offering them to a select few would be insane. Though I agree AI will exceed anything humans would be capable of. |
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jan 22, 2018 9:07:35 GMT
No reason to object to this at all.
Wouldn't that be controversial? Do human beings have the right to be... a normal human being? 
I'm fine with it. Who in the world would wish humanity to be any dumber than it is or would have to be? I don't see how making people smarter would make them abnormal human beings in any meaningful sense considering humanity's average IQ has increased over time anyway. Does anyone wish not being like our distant ancestors? |
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Post by yezziqa on Jan 22, 2018 9:27:18 GMT
You want humanity to die out? Studies have shown that the higher a woman's IQ is, the less likely it is that she will conceive.
You want your kids to be smarter? Read books and buy loads of them, be positive to homework, school, anything educational, go to museums, as children take after their parents. There is no need for pills, parents just need to turn their attention from their smartphones towards their kids.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Jan 22, 2018 12:08:25 GMT
For those who haven't seen it, there was an excellent SF film about intelligence pills, which came out a few years back: Limitless (2011).
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Post by Terrapin Station on Jan 22, 2018 17:39:45 GMT
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Post by Catman on Jan 22, 2018 17:41:55 GMT
For those who haven't seen it, there was an excellent SF film about intelligence pills, which came out a few years back: Limitless (2011). The Smothers Brothers also had a routine about smart juice (which turns out to be vinegar). |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 22, 2018 21:31:45 GMT
I have no issues with it.
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Post by OpiateOfTheMasses on Jan 22, 2018 23:04:49 GMT
Society needs people at the bottom of the pecking order to do the menial jobs that no-one else wants to do and they haven't been able to economically automate yet. If everyone becomes super-intelligent then it's going to be very difficult to get people to do those jobs (although it will speed up the process of finding solutions to automating them).
On a separate note - people will need to become smarter as more and more of those menial jobs do become automated those people at the lower end of the creative/skilled end of the labour market will find it harder and harder to find work in the future. Look at Amazon - they've managed to come up with technology which makes check-out staff completely redundant in stores today. I appreciate that it will take a while for that sort of thing to roll out across to other businesses, but it's coming.
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