= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
hyporational comments on Superintelligence 5: Forms of Superintelligence - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (112)
On this subject, I'd like to link Stanovich on intelligence amplification.
Why are these smart people making all of these mistakes?
-Intelligence testing fails to incorporate your chance of falling prey to cognitive bias.
-Intelligence testing does not test the quality of your information sources
-Intelligence testing does not test how well you control your response to negative stimulus.
It sounds like we're having to add in a series of other improvements to get an acceptable ubermenchen, not just more speed or higher IQ.
Do you have evidence that intelligence isn't correlated with all those three? IIRC Kahneman's research has pointed out that intelligence seems to protect against certain types of cognitive biases.
Very smart people, like everyone else, have emotional responses to situations, then fit a set of rationalizations to what their emotions tell them in the first place.
I would like to give better answers in the aggregate-maybe we can gather some more evidence, but I'll just give a few well-known examples of people who would've done very well on IQ tests:
Ayatollah Khomeini Hermann Goering Alan Turing and Friedrich Nietzsche, both of whom sadly ended their own lives. Unfortunately, that is fairly common among the highest IQ scorers.
Intelligence is not the only personality trait to consider.