Genetic enhancement could be really useful but I feel that there are different levels of “superintelligence” we are talking about. One can help you to do research and the other takes over the world (aligned or not). People should try to do this type of intelligence augmentation but the level of intelligence that takes over the world is probably quite far in IQ points and I would guess impossible to reach with just human brains.
Alignment being solved at all would require alignment being solvable with human-level intelligence. Even though IQ-augmented humans wouldn’t be “superintelligent”, they would have additional intelligence that they could use to solve alignment. Additionally, it probably takes more intelligence to build an aligned superintelligence than it does to create a random superintelligence. Without alignment, chances are that the first superintelligence to exist will be whatever superintelligence is the easiest to build.
Genetic enhancement could be really useful but I feel that there are different levels of “superintelligence” we are talking about. One can help you to do research and the other takes over the world (aligned or not). People should try to do this type of intelligence augmentation but the level of intelligence that takes over the world is probably quite far in IQ points and I would guess impossible to reach with just human brains.
Alignment being solved at all would require alignment being solvable with human-level intelligence. Even though IQ-augmented humans wouldn’t be “superintelligent”, they would have additional intelligence that they could use to solve alignment. Additionally, it probably takes more intelligence to build an aligned superintelligence than it does to create a random superintelligence. Without alignment, chances are that the first superintelligence to exist will be whatever superintelligence is the easiest to build.
I don’t agree with the first statement neither understand what are you arguing for or against.