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Because it's not a single data point, intelligence is a wide surface area where you can be smart in some areas and stupid in others. Furthermore whether you are
by colordrops 1mo ago
Because it's not a single data point, intelligence is a wide surface area where you can be smart in some areas and stupid in others. Furthermore whether you are being intelligent is relative to ideals and goals, and not everyone has the same ones.
- pcstl 1mo ago"Capability to achieve goals" seems to be fairly independent of goals.
- colordrops 1mo ago"Capability to achieve goals" is not synonymous with intelligence.
- pcstl 1mo agoI find it difficult to imagine an intelligent person who finds it hard to get what they want. The trope of the oblivious genius who is incredibly competent in a single field of inquiry but completely unable to handle day-to-day life is more a creation of media than how reality works.
- colordrops 1mo agoIntelligent people don't deal in tropes.
- pcstl 1mo agoIndeed.