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> you are assuming that intelligence will necessarily and inherently lead to (good) morality Please read before responding. I said no such thing. I even said t
by godelski 1y ago
> you are assuming that intelligence will necessarily and inherently lead to (good) morality
Please read before responding. I said no such thing. I even said there are bad smart people. I only argued that a person's goodness is orthogonal to their intelligence. But I absolutely did not make an assumption that intelligence equates to good. I said it was irrelevant...
- bondarchuk 1y agoIdk, you certainly seemed to be implying that especially in your earlier comment. I would agree that it is orthogonal, I would think most rationalists would, too.
- godelski 1y agoI promise you you misread. I think this is probably the problem sentence >>>> The vast majority of smart people I know are very peaceful. I'll also add that the vast majority of people I know are very peaceful. But neither of these means I don't know malicious people. You'd need to change "The vast majority" to "Every" for this to be the conclusion. I'm not discounting malicious smart people, I'm pointing out that it is a weird assumption to make when most people we know are kind and peaceful. The second comment is explicit though >> So we can't conclude that greater intelligence results in greater malice. This is not equivalent to "We can conclude that greater intelligence results in less malice." Those are completely different claims.