Without obvious signifiers of very-high IQ, it’s hard to differentiate between, say, an IQ of 130 or 160 when it comes to object-level issues. For example, what is the ‘high-IQ position’ on Ukraine vs. Russia? Or Ai risk? Or the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? It does not exist. There are high-IQ people on either extremes of these issues, and in the middle. Eliezer Yudkowsky is regarded as high IQ, but his arguments about Ai risk are either unfalsifiable or soundly refuted as being phys...
