This tracks: if you believe intelligence is "what you are" instead of "what you do", you sign on to the notion of an overclass that can make no mistakes and is also forever unattainable -- unless you won the birth lottery. Not too far from signing onto the "divine right of kings".
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Brian Beutler
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
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