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Re:The world might run out of people by aetimmes on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:26AM (#19096495)
Smart people also have equally as much capacity to accomplish things which most people consider bad.

Capability and goodness are generally orthogonal.

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Re:The world might run out of people by simonsarris on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:24PM (#19100139)
> Capability and goodness are generally orthogonal.

They are not generally orthogonal. They generally correlate well.

See Gwern's "The IQ Halo effect": https://www.gwern.net/iq

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