Is having an enormous brain truly helpful?

In the year 2020 A.D. , the inhabitants of earth are visited by a not-so-friendly race of techno-pathic AI aliens ,numbering about 500,000, and originating from a type 2 ¾ civilization from a galaxy far, far away. They left their old dwelling to see if they could create a new civilization from ( almost¹ ) scratch as a form of mass entertainment, think reality TV. Just much more violent and real.

They arrive on earth and handily take it over in one week. To make the whole "challenge" especially challenging for them, they level every city on earth with a population over 8,000 (or over 9,000 for you anime watchers), and blow up every major university. This way, they cannot employ the help of pesky Homo sapiens sapiens, although it is not as if they will need it, as their intelligence utterly dwarfs our own.

They then send out swarms of grey goo, which disables all human electronics, after that they begin their contest. But before they finished their destruction, an intrepid young billionaire gathers a sizable population (about 500 males & 4,500 females) and stows them away in a stolen government bunker city. He also gathers all of the leading scientists, hackers, and doctors the world over, and stows them way too. He takes his, 15 exabyte flash drive, downloads the internet, the U.S., Russian, and the E.U.'s intelligence databases, and finally, he takes a random assortment of thing he thinks he'll need.

To the intellectuals, he proposes an idea - create a device to biologically augment their intelligence by adding an additional 1 trillion neurons of grey matter to their brains, and altering their physiologies to allow them to better support a brain of that energy consumption ( metabolically speaking ) so that they can out-compete their oppressors.

They do this, and design exoskeletons to support their bodies.

The Question is : would such an augmentation actually improve their intelligence if they added the grey matter to the right areas of the brain? And if so, would it augment them enough so that they could compete² to any extent whatsoever with AI systems with analogous intelligent gaps between that of Humans and rats? (the AI being the the humans in the analogy)

1: They bring tech equivalent to military technology 2000 years into the future at humanity's current pace of technological advancement, excluding any unforeseen disasters

2: All living things previously on earth automatically qualify as contestants

posted almost 9 years ago

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