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This guy does not seem smart.

• discreteevent 9y ago
  He is smart. There are many competing forces in a human being. Smartness doesn't always win out. You might even notice this in yourself some day.
  • Tomte 9y ago
    Hans Reiser comes to mind. Very strong engineer, comically inept at defending himself in court.
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• AdamGibbins 9y ago
  He was on certain levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen_(inventor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen_(inventor)
• hyperbovine 9y ago
  Smart is not a number. You can be smart and dumb all at the same time.
• ufmace 9y ago
  It's sadly common for people to be brilliant at one thing and hopelessly inept at others.
  • kpil 9y ago
    I have worked with a lot of people that were technically competent in a narrow field, but surprisingly clueless in most aspects of life. It was sometimes a bit frustrating, since they could occasionally spend a lot of time on problems that had a simple solution for someone with some common sense. I don't feel smart myself but generally get the big picture so I find it fascinating that smartness is multidimensional like that.
  • mindcrime 9y ago
    Hans Reiser[1] didn't do too well with the murder thing either, despite being (apparently) pretty damn smart w/r/t file-system internals. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser