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Replying to @MorlockP
Chinese have the saying “Three smelly tanners surpass one Zhuge Liang.” (三個臭皮匠, 勝過一個諸葛亮) Pretty much the same collectivist sentiment, i.e. a big enough group of lowly folks can overcome even the brightest mind. (Maybe there r even more such proverbs
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I always interpreted it as meaning that if you want to solve a problem it's better to have lots of regular guys working on a problem than one super smart guy, but I'm a stats guy so I'd tend to see it that way.
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I'm not sure if it applies to coding, since that requires internal coherence, rather than just everyone throwing everything they've got at the wall, but I'm also not an expert at it.
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The internal coherence is exactly the issue Well, also, the spread of abilities. If one guy is 5x the average, and 5 guys are average and then spend 50% of their time communicating w each other and fighting lack of coherence, the one guy is 2.5x the team.
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I don't buy the ability thing, but the coordination will definitely be an issue.
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> I don't buy the ability thing You should
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I'm just not convinced that "intelligence" is a single variable; everything we've got says the same person will usually be great at one thing and suck at another. Even if he's intellectually perfect, he'll be terrible at something else like interpersonal relations or timekeeping.
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that doesn't actually happen. people who are smart in one area are usually good at most things. the ones who are hypersavant in one area and retarded elsewhere are typically autistic.
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It's not the only measure. It is the only measure that's called "intelligence". Just bc someone is dumb but has other gifts is no reason to call those other gifts "intelligence". Words have meanings.
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One explanation is lousy communication. Programming, for example, isn’t difficult, but programmers are genius-level bad at explaining the basics to beginners without hands-on experience. The infamous “use two occult phrases to describe one unclear term” approach.
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