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Very intelligent humans have more persuasive power over less intelligent humans than they do over most animals. Even then it's very inconsistent and it's not at

• kwhitefoot 3y ago
  It would probably be easier to talk non-flat Earthers into it; or something much more harmful.
  • yetanotherloser 3y ago
    You've just given me a weird desire to try talking people into flat earthism just to get a feel for how difficult it is. I'm holding off... for now! I do take your point though, the world is replete with causes which more or less look like averagely smart or even smarter people talked into campaigning for something that is against evidence, sense, morality or reason - or all of the above - which are also probably (or provably) against their own interests. I'm sure everyone reading can provide their own examples but please don't. I remain unconvinced that this sort of persuasion scales neatly with intelligence, though.
• abhaynayar 3y ago
  > I will worry about hyperpersuasive AI when someone manages to come up with one that can talk flat earthers out of it... The real Turing Test.
• deschutes 3y ago
  The effectiveness of persuasion depends on the appeal of the idea. AGI is going to have the credibility to make very appealing claims. For an evil example, I imagine it would be easy to convince animals to eat poisoned food.