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It would be highly surprising if it was any different, given that books have not been around long enough for us to begin to adapt to their existence in an evolu
by jacquesm 1y ago
It would be highly surprising if it was any different, given that books have not been around long enough for us to begin to adapt to their existence in an evolutionary manner. They'll be long gone before we could have.
- danans 1y agoI also doubt that "social smart" and "book smart" are fundamentally different things. Just that different people have different sensors with different sensitivities, and different noise tolerances when operating with different types of information.
- cloverich 1y agoconsider that books were designed by us, to benefit us. They are inherently optimized to accelerate what we define as book smarts, because that is what we designed them to do. Or another way, book smarts had always existed - its perhaps simply formal knowledge. But the tool (books) has been so effective at doing so that we replace the term knowledge with "books smarts". Books in that sense are perhaps the result of our evolution not the other way around.