TheAncientGeek comments on Rationality & Low-IQ People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 March 2014 12:19:23PM 0 points [-]

How do you know low IQ people aren't being instrumentally nationalist already? Maybe it is beneficial for them to play along with the religious beliefs of their neighbours, etc.

By rationalist, do you mean instrumentality rationalist, epistemically rationalist, atheist, or what?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 March 2014 12:45:53PM *  0 points [-]

It struck me the other day that conservatism could be a rational adaptation to low intelligence. If you can't figure out which new or foreign things are a threat, it is safest to treat them all as threats