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So intellectuals are simply scholars? Also, I don’t think that intellectuals are distinguished from non-intellectuals by their behavior. More, however, by how others behave towards them
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An intellectual computes a function not efficiently computable by a non-intellectual—because of having key state (from canon, grand tour), or computational superiority.
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Compression: All that reading distilled into a constallation of small core ideas. Many voracious readers’ mind appear like an information vending machine: Confusion + overweight big ideas. Then there are those who compress things into a beautiful scaffolding: Many small ideas.
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