Stupid people are a good template for understanding what smart people are obfuscating. Especially when they are from the same culture, race, tribe, or family.
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Replying to @DiamondCrouping
Similar people have similar instincts and dispositions, and the less intelligent members of those groups are less adept at camoflaging them. Therefore, as the stupid do openly, the smart conceal
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Replying to @Alephwyr @DiamondCrouping
sometimes intelligent people conform to the ideology and are able to have counter-intuitive conclusions through elaborate rationalizations. Unintelligent people rely on their intuition. Frequently, intuitions are actually reasonable but socially stigmatized as ignorant/primitive
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Replying to @IvesParrhesia @DiamondCrouping
That's true. It's not a direct relationship. It's more like, whatever the intelligent do, they probably have similar cognitive foundations. It is a smaller bias than I made it out to be.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @DiamondCrouping
What do you mean by cognitive foundations?
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I dunno. I think cognition is on a scale from reflexive to volitional and that smarter people have more volitional cognition but the same amount and types of reflexive cognition.
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