On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote:
>
> > Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is
>> likely to last longer
>>
>
> Maybe, but I note that smarter than average humans seem to have higher
> than average rates of suicide too.
>

I wonder if this is because intelligence leads to depression or because it
makes one more likely to research and correctly execute a viable method of
suicide. Do you know if the rates are also higher on failed attempts?


> Mathematicians kill themselves at a rate 1.8 times higher than the general
> population, but they're not as bad as dentists, they kill themselves 5.6
> times as often.
>
>   John K Clark
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