Smart people can afford to be more novelty seeking. They are more likley to avoid catastrophic failure trying the same novelties compared to ordinary or stupid people. Defection by someone smarter than you is harder to detect or predict. And it may have much worse results. Catastrophic results you may not be able to undo or repair because you are outmatched. Evolution takes into account that you are hackable by the very rare much more intelligent person.
I elaborated on the analysis of this scenario here.
Try playing a popular board game with someone of average or below average intelligence. Try proposing before the game a set of rule changes. The response will be “no lets keep the default rules to keep it fair”, even if the game is broken or
imbalanced and even if you can explain to them why this is so. Is this an irrational position for them to take?
If you observed a game in a parallel world where everyone is smarter by one or two standard deviations, I think their response would basically be the same. But if you just raise your and their IQ in this universe I think their response may well differ. Can anyone see why I think this is so?
Smart people can afford to be more novelty seeking. They are more likley to avoid catastrophic failure trying the same novelties compared to ordinary or stupid people. Defection by someone smarter than you is harder to detect or predict. And it may have much worse results. Catastrophic results you may not be able to undo or repair because you are outmatched. Evolution takes into account that you are hackable by the very rare much more intelligent person.
I elaborated on the analysis of this scenario here.
Try playing a popular board game with someone of average or below average intelligence. Try proposing before the game a set of rule changes. The response will be “no lets keep the default rules to keep it fair”, even if the game is broken or imbalanced and even if you can explain to them why this is so. Is this an irrational position for them to take?
If you observed a game in a parallel world where everyone is smarter by one or two standard deviations, I think their response would basically be the same. But if you just raise your and their IQ in this universe I think their response may well differ. Can anyone see why I think this is so?