I don't think smart people ever ask this question. It's an invalid question attempting to correlate unrelated dimensions. One would hope that's even the point

I don't think smart people ever ask this question. It's an invalid question attempting to correlate unrelated dimensions. One would hope that's even the point the article goes on to make, I didn't read it. The value of being smart, similar to the value of knowing the truth, is not in how happy it makes you. There might be a coincidental inverse correlation that makes the two things seem related, but the two things are never the less, unrelated in any way that matters. Your unhappiness isn't caused by your capacity to percieve or understand some bad thing, it's caused by the bad thing, and ignorance is no way to resolve it to get happiness. The question isn't even interesting to ponder like some mystery, except for a few minutes one time one day as a young person.