I find myself tripping up against some things in the OP like “wait, why would high IQ give me more observer moments?” and “I have cached beliefs that sure, maybe animals aren’t sentient, but it felt… like it just sort of snuck in that assumption without even touching on why it might be true.”
This isn’t inherently bad but it feels somewhat intellectually sloppy to propose things that without at least giving rough reasons. Now I have a dangling privileged hypothesis in my brain that “high IQ == more observer moments” and it feels sort of unclean. :P
Well the only evidence I have in favor this theory about high IQ is anthropics itself. And it should not be taken as very strong evidence. But perhaps I could make a bit stronger case, if we assume version of anthropics, where only thinking about anthropics counts as observer moments. Then one would have to have at least as high IQ as it is required to understand anthropics in order to think about them.
I find myself tripping up against some things in the OP like “wait, why would high IQ give me more observer moments?” and “I have cached beliefs that sure, maybe animals aren’t sentient, but it felt… like it just sort of snuck in that assumption without even touching on why it might be true.”
This isn’t inherently bad but it feels somewhat intellectually sloppy to propose things that without at least giving rough reasons. Now I have a dangling privileged hypothesis in my brain that “high IQ == more observer moments” and it feels sort of unclean. :P
Well the only evidence I have in favor this theory about high IQ is anthropics itself. And it should not be taken as very strong evidence. But perhaps I could make a bit stronger case, if we assume version of anthropics, where only thinking about anthropics counts as observer moments. Then one would have to have at least as high IQ as it is required to understand anthropics in order to think about them.
Are you saying “I have a high IQ, I am an observer, therefore I have some reason to believe high IQs are more common”? Is there more to it than that?
Exactly that.