Thought experiment on "more intelligence is better"<br>1. Imagine a person with the inclination to kill others. There is an intelligence dial on their side. You dial intelligence down to a low value. This person will try to kill and may be successful. Chances are they get caught and locked up pretty quickly.<br>As you dial up their intelligence they have more ability to plan, execute and avoid detection. They become better and better at killing as you dial up intelligence - they can kill more over time with a lower chance of detection.<br>So more intelligence leads to better, ie more effective killing (this is the way I think Richard uses better). But more killing is not better for society (a value judgement and how I think Lex uses better).<br><br>2. Now imagine a person with an inclination to bring beauty into the world via classical music. You dial intelligence down to a low value. This person would not be able to read music or understand things like time signature, scales, chords. They wouldn't be able to play classical music in any meaningful way. As you dial up intelligence these concepts become understandable and they can learn an instrument.<br>So more intelligence leads to better music ie a more effective manifestation of their inclination to bring beauty into the world via music.