The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

if intelligence increases the odds of a person being correct, but increases the odds of them being a persuasive arguer much more, is it rational to distrust people much more intelligent than you?

Yes. If Big Yud is to be believed though, effective applied intelligence is largely methodological, just being a good Bayesian, so people are more trustworthy the better they are at bayesian rationalism.

Yud? Shouldn’t you be working on AI to bring your scaly master into being?

I'm not sure I understand. Who is my scaly master?

Your favourite slavish god cognitohazard

Gross