I've said here before that a substantial utility of verbal IQ is to convince others (including to deceive them), but *primarily*?https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/910775252547862528 …
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Primarily, I'd say intelligence is really about being able to understand and manipulate the world to find better ways of surviving.
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Truth and reality are *very important* when it comes to survival.
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Of course, those who can deceive others to get themselves more do have an advantage as long as they don't cause the whole group's downfall.
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Unfortunately, as @Outsideness hints at,the balance has shifted in recent decades such that intelligence is increasingly enabling parasitism
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