I think it would be feasible to bring even Hitler back and firmly away from the death fever if he spent, IDK, a few years or something with a very skilled listener / psychic helper
There's an important point to be made here that Hitler was not a genius, and in general the most evil people in history don't correlate at all to being the smartest people in history. In fact, the smartest people in history generally seemed more likely to contribute positively to the development of humanity.
I would posit it's easier to make a high IQ child good for society,... (read more)
I have similar instincts that extinction doesn’t sound scary, and I’ve found it helpful to focus on individual humans I care about as an emotional strategy to increase salience.
ie: Look at my child and consider “Human extinction means my child has its life snuffed out”. Ironically the stakes seem much higher when I look at the individual level than the special level.