arundelo comments on Intelligence enhancement as existential risk mitigation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: asciilifeform 16 June 2009 12:38:19AM 1 point [-]

I cannot pin down this idea as rigorously as I would like, but there seems to exist such a trait as liking to think abstractly, and that this trait is mostly orthogonal to IQ as we understand it (although a "you must be this tall to ride" effect applies.) With that in mind, I do not think that any but the most outlandishly powerful and at the same time effortless intelligence amplifier will be of much interest to the bulk of the population.

Comment author: arundelo 16 June 2009 07:02:17AM 1 point [-]

I think this is called need for cognition. (I first saw this phrase somewhere here on LW.)