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Having a high IQ doesn't mean you're more right, it means you're more effective at believing whatever you believe. I'd guess that in any society, high IQ will tend to move to elite status (like universities) and will adopt whatever view is currently the elite norm twitter.com/mattyglesias/s

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Nov 10, 2021

...to be clear this isn't a diss on liberals and not a win for conservatives, I think if conservatives were the elite norm our society would be just as retarded

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also to be more clear I'd actually be surprised if there were literally no correlation between high IQ and more correctly predictive beliefs, I just think people tend to fail to take into account how many other powerful factors go into what a person's beliefs are besides IQ

4:14 PM · Nov 10, 2021

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One factor is also that higher IQ people are better able to believe counter-intuitive things, whether they're plausible or not. Lower IQ things likely have a smaller range of views they're able to believe; whatever the norms say.

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Iq correlates to complexity, not correctness So if a certain truth requires a 100iq to understand, then being a high iq is only helpful in the sense that you're not sub-100 Outside of that I wouldn't see any meaningful connection

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Beliefs are adaptive, as in evolution. Rationality is a subset.

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What IQ range do you think Iglesias is talking about when he says “high IQ?” Because his point might make sense if he thinks 115 is high.

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"IQ", I think may be a small percentage of the brains,"ability to learn" but I think it's mostly pattern-recognition-mental-mastubation nonsense. Being intelligent is actively finding out information. If you don't learn what mushrooms are poisonous,you're likely going to die.