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The article seems to conflate intelligence with creativity. They're orthogonal.
by bambax 10y ago
The article seems to conflate intelligence with creativity. They're orthogonal.
- coldtea 10y agoObviously not totally orthogonal, just loosely correlated, but significantly so below some threshold. E.g. it's not like someone with an IQ of 80 can be totally creative -- except if by "creative" we just mean "has lots of imagination". But what we casually call creative is not just being imaginative in abstract, but coming up with innovative solutions and important works. Which requires intelligence -- especially if those works are of the engineering and scientific kind.
- bambax 10y agoMaybe it's difficult to be really creative without being intelligent -- Einstein being a good example of someone who was extremely intelligent and extremely creative. However, it's very easy to be immensely intelligent and have zero creativity, indeed to be conformist to an absurd degree. Elite bureaucrats are exactly like this, at least in many European countries. Is it possible to be very creative and dim-witted? I'd be very tempted to say yes but I have to admit I can't provide lots of examples.
- mythrwy 10y agoBut are they an order of magnitude orthogonal? :)
- coldtea 10y agoOrthogonal means totally non correlated, so ratios wouldn;t apply at all (assuming it was even true that they are orthogonal).
- mythrwy 10y agoYes, I know. Just lightly mocking overused hacker news word groups.
- R_haterade 10y agoI enjoyed it. You will never top this one, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528934