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23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 September 2008 03:42AM

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Comment author: Scott_Aaronson2 15 September 2008 05:50:12PM 1 point [-]

We are the cards we are dealt, and intelligence is the unfairest of all those cards.

I completely agree with that statement, though my interpretation of it might be the opposite of Eliezer's. From The Simpsons:

Lisa: Dad, as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact, I made a graph! [She holds up a decreasing, concave upward graph on axes marked "intelligence" and "happiness"] Lisa: [sadly] I make a lot of graphs.