some kind of BCI reservoir compute with computations that the brain can learn to use well but that wetware is ill-suited to (someone gave the example of matrix inversions);
networking with some sort of neural organoids to get “more cortex”.
All of these are quite speculative in terms of whether they would help much and how feasible they are, so I’m not so optimistic.
BUT, reprogenetics is very likely to be able to give +2 SD boost, and pretty likely to be able to give +3-6 SD or more boost. (I think the main uncertainty is around something like “do genetic influences on intelligence saturate (i.e. hit diminishing returns) strongly with each other without saturating with non-genetic causes”. It’s hard to tell and I think it’s unlikely, but not totally implausible.) Further, I think this can work in one shot, i.e. on the first generation.
I agree that BCIs probably wouldn’t do that much. (Though:) There are a few threads that one can imagine, such as:
networking people together and having them spend a bunch of time learning how to use that;
prosthetically increased long-range connectivity;
some kind of BCI reservoir compute with computations that the brain can learn to use well but that wetware is ill-suited to (someone gave the example of matrix inversions);
networking with some sort of neural organoids to get “more cortex”.
All of these are quite speculative in terms of whether they would help much and how feasible they are, so I’m not so optimistic.
BUT, reprogenetics is very likely to be able to give +2 SD boost, and pretty likely to be able to give +3-6 SD or more boost. (I think the main uncertainty is around something like “do genetic influences on intelligence saturate (i.e. hit diminishing returns) strongly with each other without saturating with non-genetic causes”. It’s hard to tell and I think it’s unlikely, but not totally implausible.) Further, I think this can work in one shot, i.e. on the first generation.
If that’s a crux, happy to give more info.