We are the cards we are dealt, and intelligence is the unfairest of all those cards.
I completely agree with that statement, though my interpretation of it might be the opposite of Eliezer’s. From The Simpsons:
Lisa: Dad, as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact, I made a graph! [She holds up a decreasing, concave upward graph on axes marked “intelligence” and “happiness”]
Lisa: [sadly] I make a lot of graphs.
We are the cards we are dealt, and intelligence is the unfairest of all those cards.
I completely agree with that statement, though my interpretation of it might be the opposite of Eliezer’s. From The Simpsons:
Lisa: Dad, as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact, I made a graph! [She holds up a decreasing, concave upward graph on axes marked “intelligence” and “happiness”] Lisa: [sadly] I make a lot of graphs.