I think there is a whole long discussion about whether individual or small numbers of brain augments can somehow hope to outsmart whole societies of brain augments that are all working together to improve their augmentations. And also discussions around how much smarter pure AIs would be compared to normal augments.
societies of brain augments that are all working together
Even that this presupposition should hold is questionable. Mutual distrust and the associated risk might make cooperative development an exceptional scenario rather than the default one.
I think there is a whole long discussion about whether individual or small numbers of brain augments can somehow hope to outsmart whole societies of brain augments that are all working together to improve their augmentations. And also discussions around how much smarter pure AIs would be compared to normal augments.
Even that this presupposition should hold is questionable. Mutual distrust and the associated risk might make cooperative development an exceptional scenario rather than the default one.