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Only if being a genius means you can never have a lapse of judgement. As a counterpoint, the smartest people I know do all kinds of risky behaviors. If anythin

• cbsmith 2y ago
  > Only if being a genius means you can never have a lapse of judgement. > > As a counterpoint, the smartest people I know do all kinds of risky behaviors. If anything one might call it a coping mechanism. Do we know that it was a lapse in judgement? I'm thinking that's outcome bias. It's speculated that it was the cause of death, but we don't know that. If it was a known risky behaviour, you'd have thought it would have been identified by doctors (it was well known that he swam in the river a lot) and at least these days it's not considered risky behaviour. Either way, a lapse in judgement would imply that the risks outweighed the rewards (and the value of the rewards tends to be personal/contextual).