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All they're really observing is that there are no such things as "strengths" and "weaknesses" I don't think that's totally accurate, the article is very clear
by jrowen 2y ago
All they're really observing is that there are no such things as "strengths" and "weaknesses"
I don't think that's totally accurate, the article is very clear about the "duality" and "two sides of the same coin" concept. "No such things" dilutes it to something that may be a law of nature but that also approaches a tautology.
I agree with some of the comments picking the original post apart a bit, that the reality is more nuanced. "Coding speed" and "occasionally overlooking details" don't seem so cut-and-dried to me as two sides of a duality. Coding speed is the sum of a number of factors, one of which can definitely be just straight up being able to reason about things and get to a solution faster. Occasionally overlooking details is a symptom of rushing, which does relate to coding speed, but to me does not serve as a great example of the "strength = weakness" duality.
I also don't know if major evolutionary shifts over millenia are a totally apt metaphor for iterated situations involving the same individual human psyche. I feel like you zoomed out and generalized a bit much, which made it less controversial.