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I disagree with some of your observations. Being taken advantage of is not only a function of intelligence. It's also a function of emotional health. Sure, if
by neonstatic 6mo ago
I disagree with some of your observations.
Being taken advantage of is not only a function of intelligence. It's also a function of emotional health. Sure, if the person is incapable of understanding they are being taken advantage of, they will be. But one can be perfectly capable of understanding that, see it happen in real time, and let it happen anyway. That has been the case with me for a long time. I could see, but I could not stop it, because I have been emotionally conditioned to allow it. Took a long time to fix.
There is also a risk of confusing a smart person with a person who speaks well. We have a built-in heuristic, that language signals intelligence. To a large extent it does, of course, but it can be deceptive. I've grown very weary of well-spoken people, who seem to want me to think they are also very smart.
Lastly, higher intelligence does not mean the person is a better human being. I find that there is an obsession with intelligence in the West. "Stupid" people can be really lovely and better companions than smart ones. There is something to be said about kindness and honesty.
> I've noticed the smarter a person is, the fewer qualms they have about sharing exactly what they're aiming to do.
I used to be like that. Openly speaking about what I aim to do and how. I ended up moderating that quality a fair bit after noticing some people began copying my ideas or outright stealing them. I was to slow to execute.
- unsupp0rted 6mo agoThe nice thing about observing whether someone is accomplishing what they set out to accomplish is it doesn't matter how well spoken they seemed. I've found that especially smart people have preternatural bullshit detectors, even when they lack "emotional health" or the ability to socialize well with others. Smart people can be lovely, stupid people can be lovely, golden retrievers can be lovely... but that's tangential.
- neonstatic 6mo ago> I've found that especially smart people have preternatural bullshit detectors I really disagree with that. So many smart people fell for obvious bullshit because it appealed to their intellectualism. Look at all the communist sympathizers in the West. Morons, but also intelligent people most of the time. They believed stories spread by the soviet propaganda, because they wanted to believe them. > The nice thing about observing whether someone is accomplishing what they set out to accomplish is it doesn't matter how well spoken they seemed. It's funny that you say that - there's another poster in this thready who claims that looking at the output is the stupid people's way of evaluating intelligence. Seems like we really have no idea how to tell (except for an actual IQ test) > Smart people can be lovely, stupid people can be lovely, golden retrievers can be lovely... but that's tangential. Yep, I was just making a note, that intelligence might be overrated as a trait.
- unsupp0rted 6mo agoPretty much by definition: if you fall for bullshit so long as it appeals to your vanity, then you’re not especially smart.
- neonstatic 6mo agoIs Chomsky smart?
- unsupp0rted 6mo agoIs a 0.01% outlier a member of the class I'm describing? No, he's not. Because when I say "smart people", I'm not saying "every single smart person on the planet".