Intelligence, to be useful, must be used for something other than defeating itself. High IQ potentially makes it easier for you to learn to be smart and execut

Intelligence, to be useful, must be used for something other than defeating itself. High IQ potentially makes it easier for you to learn to be smart and execute the skills of smartness. Most high-IQ people never learn those skills. But people who think this makes the universe fair are living in a dreamworld. Who says that tendencies toward rationality are any more fairly distributed than IQ? And could you really teach the skills to someone with IQ 70? The answer is not necessarily "No", I suppose, but I'm skeptical; I'll believe it when I see it done; and the universe is still unfair, because it will still always be easier to learn and perform the skills if you start with IQ 130 instead. (Those asking "What are these 'skills' of which you speak?" are directed to http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences ) If you want to make the universe fair(er), you are going to have to develop human intelligence enhancement technology at some point or other - teaching rationality classes may make everyone cognitively richer, but it is not going to cure cognitive inequality. I mention this because I suspect that people applauding "IQ isn't everything" are actually applauding a seeming implication that the universe isn't quite so unfair. I'm afraid I can't back them on that implication - though, of course, IQ isn't everything.