pdf: No, of course, by definition, people who are less power-loving have less desire to manipulate the world on the medium-to-large scale. (At least that’s my working definition of “power-loving.”) And so it’s not surprising that they do so less.
Depending on what kind of ideas you have, and also what you want to do with them—refine them, put them into the zeitgeist, get them implemented on a mass scale, enjoy having them praised, whatever—you will want to introduce them to different audiences, and intelligence is only one of the relevant variables.
Eliezer: I think the Jaynes post probably got more backlash because it violated a social convention about not talking in positive terms about one’s own intelligence. (The convention is more complicated than that—I’m just identifying it, not trying to describe it here.)
pdf: No, of course, by definition, people who are less power-loving have less desire to manipulate the world on the medium-to-large scale. (At least that’s my working definition of “power-loving.”) And so it’s not surprising that they do so less.
Depending on what kind of ideas you have, and also what you want to do with them—refine them, put them into the zeitgeist, get them implemented on a mass scale, enjoy having them praised, whatever—you will want to introduce them to different audiences, and intelligence is only one of the relevant variables.
Eliezer: I think the Jaynes post probably got more backlash because it violated a social convention about not talking in positive terms about one’s own intelligence. (The convention is more complicated than that—I’m just identifying it, not trying to describe it here.)