[xwdv]

Although this sounds like a good idea for an individual, there’s really no point, because a group of well educated humans focused on a specific goal can easily have far more brain power than a single individual, and with far great redundancy. Therefore making one single individual far more intelligent and powerful at thinking has little use to society, unless they are focused on tasks that inherently can only be done effectively by a single individual, and which are becoming fewer as our tools for collaboration grow. It’s cool to have someone be like an Einstein figure, but Einstein alone could never match the combined brainpower and output of NASA for instance.

[seiferteric]

Hmm, I don't agree because I don't think intelligence scales out like that. Certainly a group of people can do more than a single person but I personally think things like increasing a persons short term memory could have pretty profound impact on our ability to have bigger ideas simply because you could hold more things in your head at once for example.