Limitless analogy: smarter people may gain far more from superintelligence
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-11-02
Drawing on the movie Limitless — where the pill NZT-48 works better for smarter people — the author argues the same may hold for superintelligence: gains from SI will be highly uneven, and "some folks are built to get a LOT more from it." A viewpoint-level analogy without supporting data.
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