27chaos comments on Human Evil and Muddled Thinking - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 September 2007 11:43PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 09 February 2015 07:44:46PM 0 points [-]

It's possible that being more intelligent will make you go from a true position to a false position, but it's not something that will happen consistently. If you want someone to be more likely to believe a true thing, it's better to make them smarter rather than stupider.

Comment author: 27chaos 10 February 2015 02:27:35AM 0 points [-]

I agree with this, but this is a more nuanced position than what Yudkowsky's above words express.