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> If a person who didn't know about something just confidently made shit up, I wouldn't call them intelligent. It seems to be a good recipe for success in many
by sanitycheck 3y ago
> If a person who didn't know about something just confidently made shit up, I wouldn't call them intelligent.
It seems to be a good recipe for success in many fields (business, politics, art, apparently somewhat in social sciences if you make up the evidence for it too) so I'm not too sure about that!
- MrVandemar 3y agoThe poster said “intelligent” not “successful”. I can name several “successful” politicians I would never, ever call intelligent.
- sanitycheck 3y agoI think you want "intelligent" to mean "ethical". Those politicians are definitely intelligent, they've devised a successful strategy to gain power. You could argue a successful sprinter doesn't need high intelligence, but politics is all about it.
- MrVandemar 3y agoNo, seriously, one of our PMs was clearly as dumb as a metaphor for something really dumb. Rhodes scholar too, which shows you what that's worth these days.