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I'll never get accustomed to the arrogance of people hating on the intelligence of some of the most successful people in their field. I don't have to like JR a
by jasonvorhe 2y ago
I'll never get accustomed to the arrogance of people hating on the intelligence of some of the most successful people in their field.
I don't have to like JR and I'd be surprised if he wasn't a CIA asset to influence public perception, but outright calling him a half wit is more telling about you and than him. Your reliance on titles and certified experts just exposes what's wrong in a post-COVID and post-truth world.
- tsimionescu 2y agoI think it comes from a long experience of just how stupid people often are despite all of their success. While many certified experts are also often quite idiotic, particularly when talking even slightly outside their fields, or when parroting dogma within their field, there really seems to be almost no correlation between public success and what we'd normally call being smart.
- PaulHoule 2y agoSee Pauling, Shockley and Josephson for scientists who did fantastic work to win a Nobel prize who then went crazy with alt health, racism and psionics. Appallingly to me there are people taking Penrose's "I can do math because I am a thetan" seriously in another discussion running now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696434