what firepower? what does it mean? what is it like to be "smart"?https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1216802665646063616 …
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I'm genuinely asking for opinions. in the past I might have given what I would now call a naive answer... now I don't even know if there is one. is being smart really a thing?
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I think articulateness is a pretty good proxy, though I’m definitely biased towards legibility here i.e. if you can’t communicate what you’re thinking about, then no one has good reason to believe you’re ‘smart’ https://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1215012796833906688?s=21 …https://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1215012796833906688 …
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ehhh not really being able to articulate yourself requires extensive exposure to a certain amount of verbal data, and a long period of time grappling with the words and articulating yourself (like learning a new language)
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but then again, as someone who spends a lot of time reading and thinking alone, the idea that in order to be smart someone else needs to acknowledge it is laughable to be and patently false
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For sure, I’m definitely not saying this is contingent on external validation And wrt articulateness—smartness (to the extent that it exists) does seem to require exposure to mostly verbal data and grappling with it... does this seem wrong?
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Replying to @choosy_mom @opti__mystic
i personally wouldn't call that firepower, as others responded, this but a manifestation of it - better cognitive resources, better ability to learn how to articulate
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i might be a bit too biased from my linguistics background - usually, articulating yourself is the last thing you learn. you can be able to understand a different language, but not necessarily to be able to speak it yourself
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yeah, this is probably more complete picture of articulateness as a *proxy* for being legibly smart if learning to grok & manipulate relevant words is a last-order effect of cognitive capacity, then it might help you distinguish someone on the upper tail, if that's your goal
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