“That hunger for power is a particular factor of intelligence.”
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Wrong word, factor, Better stated would be that the hunger for power and its accumulation is a particular kind of intelligence/motivation
“Better stated would be that the hunger for power and its accumulation is a particular kind of intelligence/motivation”
I’d certainly buy that. And it likely would give some sort of selection advantage. Power has its privileges, after all, and those that seek it tend to be the ones that get it.
But its correlation with what is measured by IQ tests would be well less that 100%, I’d imagine, particularly on the extreme right of the bell curve. And what would be better called “wisdom” is somewhat orthogonal to both these things.