vague suspicion there’s a trade off between intelligence and agency in practice
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think it may be because people with high intelligence are taken up by the institutional machine with a sense that they’ll get everything they want by following its prescriptions
whereas those with relatively lower intelligence have to find their own way sooner and get good at it
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saw a tweet on here about how smarter people can talk themselves out of anything, and how it stops them from acting
think institutional culture naturally leads here, to reinforce at every level with an increasingly refined memetic immune system that it’s way is the only good one twitter.com/spakhm/status/
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found it
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Most of the smartest people in our world get in their own damn heads so deep they talk themselves out of anything.
Too risky. Too hard. Too many competitors. Whatever.
They do too much thinking and they become the ultimate pessimist.
Too intelligent for their own good.
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the classic:
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you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
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