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What would you do if it were suddenly announced that science had come up with a way to make you more intelligent? Not slightly smarter, but rather vastly smarter by say a factor of ten. Having witnessed how technological improvements happen, it seems safe that we can assume that this first generation brain enhancer will be considered primitive over the next few years.

So my question is, would you opt for the bleeding-edge technology and early adopt? Or would you hold out for the more polished version 2.0? Personally, I would go out and purchase the upgrade immediately. I don't think that I could bear to have people walking around that much more intelligent than I am. Plus if someone was thirty times smarter than you wouldn't you pretty much have to defer to them on just about everything? My self esteem can't handle that!

On the other hand, if I had been augmented it would be difficult to hang around with you dolts. At best you would probably suspect I was patronizing you all the time. That is unless I also developed some advanced state of sympathy.