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tpoachertoday at 7:31 AM1 replyview on HN

Based on my experience of the field, I very much challenge that assumption.


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coppsilgoldtoday at 7:41 AM

Indeed, the niches of smart cheats or smart criminals have a lot of room. Because the trajectories to reach that stage without being caught by a legal (good legal work) or moral (good person) attractor are sparse and that makes them somewhat rare.

Handwaving correlations between cheating/criminality and most personality/intelligence aspects is an error, not least because there is a selection bias problem (eg. who gets caught).