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So how do you tell and how long do you have to wait - because the difference only ever seems to come visible with a certain degree of hindsight and/or luck.
by arethuza 3y ago
So how do you tell and how long do you have to wait - because the difference only ever seems to come visible with a certain degree of hindsight and/or luck.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> how do you tell and how long do you have to wait The day we can define it is the day we can create it. Until then, genius and insanity will be indistinguishable until after the fact. (That said, there are clues.)
- denton-scratch 3y ago> So how do you tell I suppose you can't; not definitively. I find it very hard to tell whether someone brighter than me is only a little brighter than me, or dramatically brighter than me. My heuristics are: * Nobody is dramatically brighter than me; I don't believe in geniuses. * Bullshit is a giveaway. If I detect bullshit (e.g. "word salad"), then he's not brighter than me. [Edit] In my experience, barristers/courtroom attorneys tend to be very bright, and also very good with language. Language is "what they do". Word salad doesn't seem to me to be a good strategy, when facing a good lawyer.
- lawn 3y agoEven if it may seem difficult or impossible to see the difference, the difference is very much there.