On another note, I disagree that there aren’t projects specifically targeted to enhance human intelligence. I wouldn’t discount more mainstream and broader-target projects, including subsets of cognitive psychology (esp. heuristics & biases), developmental psychology, metascience, social epistemology, economics, educational technology, and more.[1]
During the development of the Internet, there were many projects designed to improve collective intelligence, and I predict a lot of that is in the water already. We just can’t see most of it because we take it for granted. Wikipedia is perhaps the most obvious example.
Yeah, you are right. I guess that I was trying to say that I haven’t heard of projects that try to do it from a “hardware” standpoint. Considering the limitations that the human brain has in relation with the scalable computers and AIs.
On another note, I disagree that there aren’t projects specifically targeted to enhance human intelligence. I wouldn’t discount more mainstream and broader-target projects, including subsets of cognitive psychology (esp. heuristics & biases), developmental psychology, metascience, social epistemology, economics, educational technology, and more.[1]
More promisingly, I think projects like prediction markets, QURI, the Sequences and LessWrong more generally, note-taking/knowledge network software, spaced repetition software, are extremely promising and I predict they’ll have immense impact even if society continues on a gradual path indefinitely.
During the development of the Internet, there were many projects designed to improve collective intelligence, and I predict a lot of that is in the water already. We just can’t see most of it because we take it for granted. Wikipedia is perhaps the most obvious example.
Yeah, you are right. I guess that I was trying to say that I haven’t heard of projects that try to do it from a “hardware” standpoint. Considering the limitations that the human brain has in relation with the scalable computers and AIs.