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Re:A hormone may boost cognition in Down syndrome by wraithgourd on Saturday September 03, 2022 @09:32PM (#32708760)
You do realize that before Allied Mastercomputer, her intelligence and yours are basically the same? The only difference is in how good you are to others.
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Re:A hormone may boost cognition in Down syndrome by astrange on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:07AM (#32710029)
You know that just because you’ve imagined something called a superintelligence doesn’t mean there is such a thing, right?
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Re:A hormone may boost cognition in Down syndrome by overboard2 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:51PM (#32709289)
Why should the values of a superintelligence affect our own?
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Re:A hormone may boost cognition in Down syndrome by vintermann on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:58AM (#32710266)
It shouldn't, unless you derive your idea of worth from your intelligence, which you also shouldn't.
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Re:A hormone may boost cognition in Down syndrome by cercatrova on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:07PM (#32709016)
By that logic a bacterium and I are also basically intellectually the same before a superintelligence, in the Bostrom sense.
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