That’s certainly true. “If you’re routinely the smartest guy in the room, find a different room.”
And yeah, in a “post-Singularity” world that contained a lot of different ranges of intelligence I would probably tune my intelligence to whatever range I was interacting with regularly, which might involve variable intelligence levels, or even maintaining several different disjoint chains of experience.
And I’m perfectly prepared to believe that past a certain point the negative tradeoffs of marginal increases in intelligence outweigh the benefits.
But at least up to that threshold, I would likely choose to socialize with other people who tuned themselves up to that level. It’s admittedly an aesthetic preference, but it’s mine.
That’s certainly true. “If you’re routinely the smartest guy in the room, find a different room.”
And yeah, in a “post-Singularity” world that contained a lot of different ranges of intelligence I would probably tune my intelligence to whatever range I was interacting with regularly, which might involve variable intelligence levels, or even maintaining several different disjoint chains of experience.
And I’m perfectly prepared to believe that past a certain point the negative tradeoffs of marginal increases in intelligence outweigh the benefits.
But at least up to that threshold, I would likely choose to socialize with other people who tuned themselves up to that level. It’s admittedly an aesthetic preference, but it’s mine.