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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Mar 2019

    eigenrobot Retweeted Morgan Housel

    My hunch is that this is not true and in fact people who are very good at one thing are likely to be good at many things People who are narrow savants are unusual but stick out Hm. Possibly his idea holds for really really extreme cases or cases where the subject is odd.https://twitter.com/morganhousel/status/1110191230506450944 …

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    Morgan HouselVerified account @morganhousel
    An untested/unconfirmed theory I have is that people who are abnormally good at one thing are more likely to be abnormally bad at another.
    8:28 AM - 26 Mar 2019
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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Mar 2019

        That isnt quite a response to what he was saying I realize But I think "abnormally" bad is pretty contextual given the left skew of human ability Basically everyone reading this is likely to be eg +1 SD or more on most axes and in many ways "bad" for us is like "human median"

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Mar 2019

        like "hahaha im so bad at math i only made it through algebra" well on one hand yes on the other hand this kind of reads like "man im so badly read i only got through half of harry potter" yeah become good motherfucker but also you can READ right

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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @diachronist

        i bet youre not! even this tweet is charmingly self-deprecating while establishing a nice fun common interest

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      1. Robot Bastard!‏ @Robot_Bastard 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        Another expression of the Just World Fallacy. "You're good at A so you must be bad at B, because the scales have to balance!"

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      2. Arrogation Toast‏ @lordcataplanga 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        It's a selection effect. My friends are smart xor charismatic not because those are mutually exclusive, but because the people who are both smart and charismatic don't hang out with people like me.

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @lordcataplanga

        this seems roughly correct conceptually but I bet you're selling yourselves short there's a kind of I think we (subjective we, ingroup) are all weird in an illegible way like charisma is not fungible

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      2. Westerbly Snaydley‏ @radgeRayden 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        My take: learning is a skill in itself, and people very good at one thing are capable of being extremely good at many things (time permitting). This is masked by bad time management / hyperfocus, but if they actually try to improve that they can attain that godlike aura

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      3. Westerbly Snaydley‏ @radgeRayden 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @radgeRayden @eigenrobot

        Meant to say that there's high correlation between being very good at one thing and being good at learning, but forgot.

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      2. Daniel Klein‏ @othercriteria 26 Mar 2019
        Replying to @eigenrobot

        https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-tails-come-apart …

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      3. Daniel Klein‏ @othercriteria 26 Mar 2019
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        Daniel Klein Retweeted Adam Strandberg

        https://twitter.com/the_lagrangian/status/701842359827492865 …

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        Adam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian
        Made a plot showing why positive qualities in your partners may be neg correlated despite pos corr in population pic.twitter.com/gYBiZfntHg
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