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I 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 idio
by tsimionescu 2y ago
I 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