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I've always figured that tanglible "intelligence" which leads to more effective decision making is just a better appreciation of one's own stupidity.

• ethbr1 1y ago
  +1. Being exceptionally intelligent doesn't always catch unknown unknowns. (Sometimes, but not always)
  • cgio 1y ago
    That would be an extreme criterion for exceptional intelligence, akin to asking for there to be no unknowns.
    • ethbr1 1y ago
      It's an observation that being smarter in the things you do know isn't everything.
    • Quarrelsome 1y ago
      perhaps the argument is simply that "exceptional intelligence" is just being better at accepting how little you know, and being better at dealing with uncertainty. Both respecting it and attempting to mitigate against it. I find some of the smartest people I know are careful about expressing certainty.