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Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir's avatar

> Either smart people reject your views because those views are wrong, or because, even if your views are correct, individuals with higher IQs find them inherently unappealing.

This is just dumb to the point of intellectual laziness. Other explanations include:

* network effects

* some beliefs are more incentivized than others

* the incentive for holding true beliefs is not as strong as you think

"This holds across cultures" is also BS, the world is just cosmopolitan and so all of these cultures are the same.

If you looked at like, ancient civilizations vs primitive tribes, then Elite Human Capital would have been highly "religious, patriarchial, conservative" than anyone else.

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משכיל בינה's avatar

It's hard to disentangle general high-IQ tendencies to social liberalism from the fact there is only one global cultural power and its elite is liberal. For example, high IQ people are certainly less likely to be racist on average just because, but there is a particular negolatry that can be found in elites and aspiring elites across the world that is most likely a specific function of American power. Example: in Britain, there are frequent attempts to promote black history, claim that black people were particularly affected by the War of the Roses and other weird stuff. No-one does this with, say, Pakistanis even though there are more Pakistanis in England than blacks.

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