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Comment author: blogospheroid 30 October 2012 06:33:54AM 1 point [-]

Why do you think know high IQ is correlated with reasonable politics?

The Bryan Caplan link by Carl Shulman below and some other similar material. Plus, it takes some time to go through arguments. Even that level of input requires factors that are generally associated with a high IQ.

You want to be an asteroid miner? Why? That sounds even less fun, and more dangerous, than an ordinary miner.

Sorry, an old childhood dream surfaced here. My more general point about greater choice of occupations holds.

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