Higher IQ in Humans is Loosely Correlated with Altruistic Nonconformism and Universalist Moral Reasoning Tuesday, Nov 17 2009
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This evidence is merely anecdotal, and I give great preference to non-anecdotal evidence, but it’s nice to mix in occasional anecdotes as long as we don’t overweigh their significance.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Low IQ is Loosely Correlated with Selfish Pack Behavioristic Bigotry
In science there’s no use for conformism. Why should there be anywhere else? The truth doesn’t require conformism. Memes do. The conformist never seems to conform to facts, but some opinion. Why not just look at the facts and conform to them instead? I guess that would be “revolutionary”.
The memes we are supposed to conform to are, by and large, dumb and useless and contribute to all kinds of dumb and useless behavior and consequences. I can’t think of any example where conformism helps achieve any worthwhile goals. The question is what goals does conformism serve other than some dumb old ancestral goals that still stick around?
With sufficiently high intelligence the right and good choices are obvious. With sufficiently low intelligence the right and good choices can seem absurd and even evil.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Thanks to you I dont look like an idiot. I had a disagreement with my friend and this shows I was right. Thanks!