TheOtherDave comments on Grigori Perelman refused prize because he knows "how to control the universe" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 May 2013 10:59:55PM 0 points [-]

The kind of intelligence that was probably most heavily selected for is social intelligence

In this vein, I often observe that our entire technological civilization was a side-effect of the human urge to gossip.