I think as you go higher up in the IQ spectrum, you should be more willing to give up IQ points.
At high levels (lets say 3 standard deviations out) you can understand the vast majority of things given a reasonable time frame, and if you’re content to live off of other people’s discoveries, its much more useful to know what you should be doing and how to allocate your focus, than to have your focus that little bit more useful.
I, personally, would be willing to drop about 7 IQ points. I suspect that I’ll be able to translate rationality into later-life success to a point that I could’ve given up more, but I don’t have much data to support this yet, so I’ll be more conservative.
I’d be willing to drop down to 85th percentile or so if I’d get to have known LW concepts my entire life.
I think as you go higher up in the IQ spectrum, you should be more willing to give up IQ points.
At high levels (lets say 3 standard deviations out) you can understand the vast majority of things given a reasonable time frame, and if you’re content to live off of other people’s discoveries, its much more useful to know what you should be doing and how to allocate your focus, than to have your focus that little bit more useful.
I, personally, would be willing to drop about 7 IQ points. I suspect that I’ll be able to translate rationality into later-life success to a point that I could’ve given up more, but I don’t have much data to support this yet, so I’ll be more conservative.
I’d be willing to drop down to 85th percentile or so if I’d get to have known LW concepts my entire life.