You can’t really learn from anyone with intelligence significantly different from your own, only be surprised by them. Good teachers *for you* differ from you not in intelligence but conditioned traits like courage, self-awareness, context-awareness, etc.
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Surprisal isn’t the same as learning though it can trigger learning. My mental model of “intelligence” is a set of situated personality archetypes correlated to modes of efficient survival. Basically ways of learning/adapting with corresponding domains where they work very well.
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Hmm. Personality model I’ve been developing is also a multiple intelligences model now that I think of it. It has 6 types, with intelligences that could be called: traditional IQ, creativity, intellectual courage, social courage, formalist imagination, and moral imagination 🤔.
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Disagree with first sentence, or maybe with taxonomy of intelligences. I think a teacher can teach people with diff intels, if their intel is knowing how to speak to the others. Perhaps this is a "high EQ" or "political" intel

