Artificial Intelligence, No, not robots and that sort Options

[Simba]

So I just finished reading some of the book Flowers for Algernon for school. It's about a mentally retarded man volunteering to be part of a surgery/experiment that will try to make his IQ three times higher than what it was.

I've heard that some scientists today are trying to accomplish this.

What do you guys think about artificially raising a person's IQ? What do you think would happen if everybody, or most people received that sort of surgery?

Just wondering what some of you guys think about this sort of thing.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

I think it would be a bad idea. I mean, when everyone's super-smart, there'd be no competition! Well, at least not in school.

And the suicide rate would probably be heightened. You guys have all heard of super-smart people killing themselves because they know too much, right?

I think it'd be crazy.

[Simba]

I think it would be a bad idea. I mean, when everyone's super-smart, there'd be no competition! Well, at least not in school.

And the suicide rate would probably be heightened. You guys have all heard of super-smart people killing themselves because they know too much, right?

I think it'd be crazy.

Well, if you were to do it to everybody, and it remains a constant times three (or whatever number) your IQ, then everyone would basically be the same in IQ gaps, just everyone's overall IQ would be higher.
Kind of like a super-intelligent society.
Except it's seems pretty unlikely that every single person would get that operation.

Talk about irony. I just finished reading part of that book too.

Well, in the book, in says that his intelligence go down (sorry if this is a spoiler :P) rapidly after a few months of gaining it. I'm not sure if that book was written based on scientific research yet, but after I googled it, it said nothing about the kind with surgery, only involving computional intelligence.

But despite that, I think it'll just be cool to be able to have artificial intelligence, just a feeling. I just think that if they ever do come up with a success in this, that many people will take advantage of it, especially people with money. And I think that people who are mentally disabled like that should stay that way, even as cruel as I may sound.

Yeah, I tried not to mention that part of the book since I didn't want to spoil it. Oh well.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

Well, if you were to do it to everybody, and it remains a constant times three (or whatever number) your IQ, then everyone would basically be the same in IQ gaps, just everyone's overall IQ would be higher.
Kind of like a super-intelligent society.
Except it's seems pretty unlikely that every single person would get that operation.

Oh, alright. It's still a hypothetical situation, right?

Everybody would still have extremely high IQs (except for people who have <50, but that's like impossible). It is said that smart people kill themselves because they see things that normal people don't see. They think too much and their minds can see on multiple levels.
Suicide rate would be pretty high.. I probably wouldn't want to live in a world like that.

It'd be chaotic too, because what if someone decides to create a new plague one day just to terrorize humanity? Or build super-strong nuclear weapons and destroy the Earth.