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

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 16 June 2009 03:59:42PM *  0 points [-]

How does increasing "the marginal social status payoff from an increase in IQ" help? I'm not saying it would hurt, but it seems less direct and less important than increasing the marginal social status payoff from having and acting on unbiased beliefs about the world because this is something people can change fairly easily.

Comment author: komponisto 17 June 2009 12:45:25AM 1 point [-]

That may well be right. I'm willing to accept that the distinction between "I.Q." and other measures of "smartness" is orthogonal to the point I was making.