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I really did appreciate the post, but I also felt weird about that language. Not offended or anything, but it stood out. Not to detract from the nice explanati
by asxd 5y ago
I really did appreciate the post, but I also felt weird about that language. Not offended or anything, but it stood out.
Not to detract from the nice explanation in that post, but I do think "smart" can be a bit of annoying term. It sort of implies an innate property. I'm pretty confident anyone can become really good at anything, given enough motivation and time. I'd prefer the term "experienced" or something to that effect.
- sellyme 5y ago> I'm pretty confident anyone can become really good at anything, given enough motivation and time. And I'm pretty confident that some people can become really good at said thing faster, due to some form of innate talent. And as we all have finite time, that's a pretty important trait.
- abrax3141 5y agoPeople, and their lives, are extremely high dimensionality objects, and most of those dimensions are essentially continuous. However, in terms of cognition, we are all quite close to one another along any given dimension. If we weren't, you'd really notice, like someone on the far end of "The Spectrum". However, small deltas in a high dimensionality space add up to a large vector length. Still, these are never so important as context: Where you grew up, whether you fell in love with someone early, whether you had access to the best schools for your target, etc. are much more important factors than the combinations of people's intrinsic features.