There is something bizarre about “high-IQ” as an identity core like with Mensa. Like a trade union of capitalists or a commune of libertarians. Or that South Park joke about the anti-semitic sect of Judaism. Shouldn’t you be winning Nobels, rather than performing identity?
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the clever fucker who has to do everything their own way will probably come up with two or three superior strategies in a lifetime. the conformist fucker who does exactly what a well-developed culture tells them has access to hundreds of superior strategies.
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this is the most crippling thing about growing up as a smart kid in a cultural backwater: it teaches you that listening to other people is a mistake, and that stays with you after you get out of the backwater
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Sounds like you’re just saying “smart” in a more complicated fashion.
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not really, no, unless you're using a similarly circular definition of "smart" that turns out to encompass anything "effective". you can be very much not anything anybody actually means by "smart" and meet the criteria i describe
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My original statement was that intelligence is a necessary but not sufficient condition for effectiveness. In what world is this not true?
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this one, where intelligence is neither necessary nor sufficient because obediently following good procedure suffices
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History is rich with counterexamples to this line of thought my friend.
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To find them Google “I was just following orders”
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hunh, that goalpost was just on "effective" and now it's way the heck over there, how did that happen
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I figured you’d land here. Redefining “effective” was pretty much your only rhetorical move.
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