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AFAICT, brilliant model-based thinkers lean one of two ways: A: empirical, logical, like to start with solid axioms & slowly build out a strong map, lean underconfident B: intuitive, insight-oriented, like to build out a weaker map faster & from many angles, lean overconfident
A-types seem more likely to find personal success, but less likely to produce exceptional work; B-types are more bimodal. A-types can produce a lot of value & live comfortably without B-types; B-types are much better off in symbiotic relationships with ambitious A-types
Both types low-key annoy one another. "How can someone so smart be so dumb?" It's difficult to productively share models when one is tiny, terribly incomplete and beautifully constructed & the other is impressively massive and made largely of popsicle sticks
The comma in "empirical, logical" hides quite a chasm, though.
I acknowledge this is a very A-type tweet.
I was thinking to which category I belong, then reread the first sentence of the tweet - 'brilliant thinkers' - and gave up.
Don't do that
not calling myself brilliant, but I'm definitely B a game theorist of my acquaintance made a similar categorization off the cuff a few months ago, so I will overconfidently state that there's gotta be something to it
Well, I've seen a lot of what you've written here, and I've disagreed with you a fair bit (and still do, I'm sure), and FWIW I think you're solidly brilliant
Does this bottom-up/top-down, work-forward/work-backward dichotomy correlate with existing trait dimensions, e.g. conscientiousness from the Big 5, or with concrete vs abstract thinking? Math / CS imho need both leaping ahead to set goals and schlepping there one step at a time.
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