If you exclude reading, writing, speaking, and listening (ie use of language, including math or code) as mere table stakes, how would you define “intellectual” in terms of essential non-language behaviors that non-intellectuals typically don’t exhibit?
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My favorite quote: “Excellence is for the clueless middle.” I have thought of myself as an Optimizer my whole life, realizing recently that most things are as good with 60% fucks given. You could think of mediocrity an optimization on effort.
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I think we’re picturing different things when it comes to the meaning of optimization.
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