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Except that smart people need less y to learn almost any x, which is part of what it means to be smart.
by lliamander 4y ago
Except that smart people need less y to learn almost any x, which is part of what it means to be smart.
- arethuza 4y agoI would add that some of the stupidest things I've seen people do were actually done by people who were, by any objective measure, extremely smart - either from hubris or general otherworldliness....
- lliamander 4y agoYour anecdote doesn't really prove anything. "Intelligent" doesn't mean "free of character flaws" or "happy" or "wealthy". Meanwhile, intelligence research continues to be one of the more fruitful (and reliable) fields of the social sciences
- photochemsyn 4y agoThat's also a trainable skill, learning how to learn new concepts quickly. Here is where many people report LLMs like ChatGPT are a huge time-saving boost. This might also be an either-or situation - i.e. some people specialize in the ability to quickly grasp a wide variety of knowledge at a relatively shallow level, others specialize in in-depth knowledge of a particular subject, and it's impossible to be really good at both.
- lliamander 4y ago> That's also a trainable skill, learning how to learn new concepts quickly Maybe to a limited extent, but most of the difference is likely natural ability.