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If you were smart, wouldn't you know how to optimally deal with bullshit?
by ikeyany 7y ago
If you were smart, wouldn't you know how to optimally deal with bullshit?
- heavenlyblue 7y agoThis takes a whole different set of skills against e.g being good at programming. For example, how do you react to inherently unfair situations, someone taking advantage of someone else? If you start picking on people good politicians will quickly “plausibility deniability” you out of the equation. It’s much easier to accept (with a bit of anger) that you made a mistake in your program that bring defaced due to your “judgement being clouded by anger”. You may be smart enough to even understand what you have to do, but it will take practice to do it well even if you understand it conceptually.
- ikeyany 7y agoJust because you're a good programmer doesn't mean you're smart.
- redisman 7y agoThere are many different heuristics for what is "optimal". To many it is to be left alone to work on things they find interesting.