Thank you for raising this point. The argument would also matter to smart people if they cared about their own intelligence. If the population average is pegged to a low level, even the outliers are much less smart in absolute scales. As for why it would matter to you when your intelligence is already settled, see updateless decision theory.
Thank you for raising this point. The argument would also matter to smart people if they cared about their own intelligence. If the population average is pegged to a low level, even the outliers are much less smart in absolute scales. As for why it would matter to you when your intelligence is already settled, see updateless decision theory.
You need more work than saying “updateless decision theory” to get that argument to work. Make the model and the correlations clear and explicit.
I understand why some people follow a decision theory that works that way, but I do not.