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HughRistik comments on Muehlhauser-Goertzel Dialogue, Part 1 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: HughRistik 19 March 2012 04:27:02AM 1 point [-]

On the whole it seems that intelligent folk really are significantly more moral than the majority of humanity

That's been my observation, also. But if it's true, I wonder why?

It could be because intelligence is useful for moral reasoning. Or it could be because intelligence is correlated with some temperamental, neurological, or personality traits that influence moral behavior. In the latter case, moral behavior would be a characteristic of the substrate of intelligent human minds.