For example, I suspect philosophical intelligence was a major driver behind Eliezer’s success (and not just for his writing about philosophy). Conversely, I think many people with crazy high IQ who don’t have super impressive life achievements (or only achieve great things in their specific domain, which may not be all that useful for humanity) probably don’t have super high philosophical intelligence.
Rather than “philosophical intelligence” I might call this “ability to actually win”, which is something like being able to keep your thoughts in contact with reality, which is surprisingly hard to do for most complex thoughts that get tied up into one’s self beliefs. Most people get lost in their own ontology and make mistakes because they let the ontology drift free from reality to protect whatever story they’re telling about themselves or how they want the world to be.
Rather than “philosophical intelligence” I might call this “ability to actually win”, which is something like being able to keep your thoughts in contact with reality, which is surprisingly hard to do for most complex thoughts that get tied up into one’s self beliefs. Most people get lost in their own ontology and make mistakes because they let the ontology drift free from reality to protect whatever story they’re telling about themselves or how they want the world to be.