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Every intelligent act/person is intelligent in the same way Every stupid act/person is stupid in a different way Intelligence and stupidity aren't duals, and not even very correlated. The same person/act can be both at once. Your stupidities define you far more than your IQ
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I see what you are trying to do here. Yet there seem to be several modes of intelligently creating models and policies that vary eg by the probability we assign to unproven concepts, and their success depends on environmental factors. Conversely, we can classify stupidities, too.
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If there’s a concept you can assign a probability to you’re already in a model. “Black swan” is already a model. Just because it is pre-statistical does not mean it’s not a model at all. I’m trying to thread the needle between percepts and phenomenology or something
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There is never not a model. Minds are machines to identify the relationships between changes in information. Everything that is not noise to us is a model of such relationships
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True but by applying egregiously wrong models, stupidity achieves model-free effects by accident. Also indifference, apathy. The holy grail is the unmotivated truly random act
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Do you observe that intelligent (= good at making models) minds come in several editions? There are narrow and tight reasoners, and the more fluid and creative types, and very few that can perfectly switch between these modes.
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Yes, totally. Some bio just noted that Hawking for example has a big sweeping intelligence to his thinking in part because he had to rely on more abled people to do the detailed math.
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I am part of a small heretic community that thinks he was not actually such a great physicist, but don't tell anyone. I suspect that the difference between a highly intelligent person and a genius is the latter's ability to switch between extreme openness and ruthless exactitude.
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