I call this "noticing confusion" (by way of @ESYudkowsky) and it's probably sufficient to be a singular hallmark of interesting people. The superpower comes from playing with what anomalies suggest about the explanations that fail to predict themhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1147505767039287296 …
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Smart people who value being smart can be very bad at noticing confusion in part because being good at it sometimes makes you look very naive and childlike, and can therefore threaten the social goods you're accustomed to getting for intelligence
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Peter Thiel helped make noticing confusion trendy by pointing out that certain secrets hiding in plain sight can translate to big money. Unfortunately, people can get very frustrated looking for high-value secrets if they have no practice looking for low-value secrets
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Because secret-seeking can look weird and foolish, people are usually only willing to look for secrets with cash value. But the people who find these are mostly weirdos, people who are constitutionally incapable of being well-adjusted adults and gave up trying a long time ago
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I love the "why don’t whales get cancer more often?" example from https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/14/living-by-the-sword/ …
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Every smart person would eventually become a philosophy professor straddling idealist and materialist thought in your scenario
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