As long as you are sharing your development with us, I'd be curious to know why the young Eliezer valued intelligence so highly as to make it a terminal value. He must have enjoyed what he thought was 'intelligence' tremendously, and seen that people who did not share in this intelligence, did not share in his enjoyment and felt sorry for them. Moreover, he must not have been jealous of any enjoyments his less intelligent brethren seemed to partake in that he did not. He probably also did some sort of correlative analysis observing people he considered having more and less intelligence and determined the mores were betteroff than the morons. What traits would he have used to establish this correlation?

Heck- not having experienced qualitatively what young Eliezer did, I can't be certain he's not right about how great it is to be that smart. But that argument can go in any direction. I was quite a busy teen myself, and I'm not so sure I'd trade my ups for a few more IQ points.