its kind of true tho firepower matters its not all that matters but its a major contributor cant get away from ithttps://twitter.com/osanderfoot/status/1216776289501138944 …
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it doesnt determine your moral value but some things are just really hard to do without certain levels of ability everyone in science knows this and talks about it constantly if circumlocutiously
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most people are not smart enough to be scientists including many or perhaps most scientists and frankly including me and thats okhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1216593391787499520?s=19 …
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I saw once that the average physics grad student has a lower GRE than I do, and that struck me as absolutely insane, bc I'm not smart enough to be a physics PhD asked a physics PhD friend and he said "most of these grad students aren't either / won't be" REEEEE
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tangential: it seems to me that very smart (130+) people are generally more willing to acknowledge when they are plainly not smart enough to do something wonder if this is a real effect or just selection
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It feels fairly costless to me to acknowledge that I'm not smart enough to do some things because I'm probably plenty smart to do the things that are immediately required for my role set? Or maybe because it's still Smart Enough for most standards?

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maybe a way to put this is, intelligence is not a good attack surface for people who might want to lower my status
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