My experience is that some people who learn too fast don't seem to always fully synthesize their knowledge to resolve internal contradictions. Sometimes when yo

My experience is that some people who learn too fast don't seem to always fully synthesize their knowledge to resolve internal contradictions. Sometimes when you talk to such people, it feels almost like they can guess what you're trying to say; they can predict the next best word like an LLM; this makes them highly intelligent by some standard. However, unlike LLMs which are generalists, such people tend to steer away from conversations which are slightly outside of their main area of competence; in such situations, they will often defer their thinking to 'experts', even when it goes against what seems like basic common sense. Sometimes if you force them into such conversations, you can uncover some surprising blind spots where they don't understand very basic things. I once had this experience when I was talking to a guy I worked with in crypto space who had a PhD in mathematics; smarter than me in many ways. But one time we were having a discussion and he just couldn't understand my argument about basic price and demand dynamics, he couldn't accept my argument that the Bitcoin blockchain isn't actually scalable, that the main reason the network doesn't get congested and grind to a halt is because when the Bitcoin transaction volume is high, block miners increase the transaction fee as a way to drive down demand for transactions. He couldn't gasp the role of market incentives and could not accept the fact that the Bitcoin blockchain itself can't physically process more than about 4 transactions per second.