wedrifid comments on My Childhood Death Spiral - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 21 May 2011 07:47:00PM *  0 points [-]

I agree that they're all very unfair, and I take back what I said about "usually". However, I still think intelligence (IQ, not functional intelligence) is the most unfair because one isn't going to be able to change it.

People who die from malaria or starvation in third world countries don't tend to live through intelligence explosions, either in corpsicle or meat sack forms.

Comment author: EStokes 22 May 2011 04:12:39PM *  0 points [-]

That is unfair. I think we're talking around eachother though, because I'm not trying to say that intelligence has the most unfair consequences, I meant that one can't change it no matter how much one wants to or needs to or whatnot. Yes, the other ones can't always be changed, but on average intelligence is the most unchangeable .