Only if whatever enhances their intelligence also amplifies their ambition, like in the Wraith of Khan. Which seems to be the current direction of US education system. Foreign-educated tech immigrants are not throwing any fireworks at rallies.
I think that’s a given, isn’t it? When most people (in the US at least) are financing their education via loans if they’re going to take out increasingly larger loans they’re going to have to expect more in return in order to pay those loans back. I don’t know I would call that “entitlement” though.
High Risk != High Reward. There are far too many college educated people in the US that assume this. I walked in getting my degree knowing full well I was paying simply for the paper and the potential for getting a job in my field. I didn't walk in like I did the first time getting my associates degree believing I'd be making $50k upon graduation.
I know this is just a typo/autocorrupt (and goodness knows I’ve had plenty of those in my comments here, some spotted only after the edit window closes), but this does sound like an plot for either The Lower Decks or Rick & Morty.
But to your actual point: I agree, I don’t think genius is correlated with corrupted power. High-IQ watering holes like HN and Less Wrong may be filled with people whose ambitions include want to radically change the world (and HN being part of Y Combinator suggests a desire to get rich doing so), but they don’t give me the vibe of wanting to rule it like the character of Kahn.
> [...] but this does sound like an plot for either The Lower Decks or Rick & Morty.
Rick and Morty prefers starting with an existing title and then cramming one (or more) of the character's names in, whether it makes sense or not, and sometimes avoiding a more reasonable mutation for one that's nonsense. In this case, if they really wanted to use this title, I'd expect them to end up with something like "The Rick of Khan" purely so they could match the R sound on "wrath" and the dual consonants at the end of the word.
Extreme, real example of this pattern from the current season: "Mort Dinner Rick Andre". They've turned it into grammatical nonsense so they can make some very tenuous word-sound connections (especially on "with" -> "rick"—it's there, but wow, that's a stretch)
Sure, but I mean the plot, not the title. A ghost of changed-just-enough-to-avoid-copyright-infringement-but-still-obvious Khan seeking revenge feels very much the sort of thing they’d do.
