Carl_Shulman comments on Why Does Power Corrupt? - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 October 2008 12:23AM

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Comment author: Carl_Shulman 14 October 2008 05:39:59PM 1 point [-]

Eliezer, you're saying that 1, and 2 don't have significant quantitative heritable variation among people, measurable via twin studies? There is heritable variation on generosity in the dictator and trust games, among others:

http://ideas.repec.org/p/huj/dispap/dp457.html http://www.pnas.org/content/105/10/3721.full

Are you predicting that genotyping high-status individuals in different institutional frameworks won't result in significantly different frequencies of such variations in different frameworks? If the framework selects for anything uncorrelated with abuse of power, then the latter will likely be driven down.