I think it would be feasible to bring even Hitler back and firmly away from the death fever if he spent, IDK, a few years or something with a very skilled listener / psychic helper
There’s an important point to be made here that Hitler was not a genius, and in general the most evil people in history don’t correlate at all to being the smartest people in history. In fact, the smartest people in history generally seemed more likely to contribute positively to the development of humanity.
I would posit it’s easier to make a high IQ child good for society, with positive nurturing.
The alignment problem perhaps is thus less difficult with “super babies”, because they can more easily see the irrationality in poor ethics and think better from first principles, being grounded in the natural alignment that comes from the fact we are all humans with similar sentience (as opposed to AI which might as well be a different species altogether).
Given that Hitler’s actions resulted in his death and the destruction of Germany, a much higher childhood IQ might even have blunted his evil.
Also don’t buy the idea that very smart humans automatically assume control. I suspect Kamala, Biden, Hillary, etc all had a higher IQ than Donald Trump, but he became the most powerful person on the planet.
There’s an important point to be made here that Hitler was not a genius, and in general the most evil people in history don’t correlate at all to being the smartest people in history. In fact, the smartest people in history generally seemed more likely to contribute positively to the development of humanity.
I would posit it’s easier to make a high IQ child good for society, with positive nurturing.
The alignment problem perhaps is thus less difficult with “super babies”, because they can more easily see the irrationality in poor ethics and think better from first principles, being grounded in the natural alignment that comes from the fact we are all humans with similar sentience (as opposed to AI which might as well be a different species altogether).
Given that Hitler’s actions resulted in his death and the destruction of Germany, a much higher childhood IQ might even have blunted his evil.
Also don’t buy the idea that very smart humans automatically assume control. I suspect Kamala, Biden, Hillary, etc all had a higher IQ than Donald Trump, but he became the most powerful person on the planet.