The research suggests that morality increases because the utility of immorality decreases. It’s not that smarter and wealthier people are more moral, it’s that morality is more useful for them, because they are more capable of identifying and pursuing potential reciprocal…
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 17:14:18 UTC
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I think there is some correlation between intellect and morality, but it’s not 1 (obviously). If I’m just riffing off the cuff, I think that the more intellect one has, the better one can model the perspective of another person. Empathy requires a fairly complex analysis of another person’s incentives and experiences, and the difficulty of that analysis rises the more that other person’s circumstances are from one’s own.
Tl:Dr empathy requires horsepower, and empathy correlates with moral actions. Both correlations are imperfect, however.
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