Intelligence ought be highly correlated to a mind inquiring enough to test the veracity in what they are being told, the reputation of the teller and what their history of being honest or dishonest is, evaluate the likelihoods of the outcomes that the tellers insist are the risks that justify extreme responses, look for motivations that might be leading people to deceive based on profit or blackmail, and all the rest of the standard intellectual set of tools.
If they cant do this, or dont have the time, or whatever excuse they come up with, I dont accept they have the gifts they claim to. Regardless of whatever tenure or professorship they hold.
I agree 100%. Some would argue people like us overthink everything. They are wrong. We think down all the logical paths that look to be possible for the issue at hand. We don't stop when we find the answer that suits us, we continue to think until we come up with the most likely correct answer as well as multiple less likely outcomes.
The problem with the masses, they don't even look for the first outcome, they simply think, why would they lie about this. Except to them this is a rhetorical question. While a thinking man dissects this "rhetorical" question.
I may put this up as a post, would be a good meme if done right.
At this point I’m wondering if the masses think at all. It looks to me like many have been told what to think - in other words they just parrot out what they’ve been told.
When you catch them in a logic fallacy, they freeze up (as their matrix glitches). You can see it in their eyes and then you get angry dismissal, emotional condescension and the end of the conversation.
They don’t want to actually think or to know actual truth; they want to “be right” and feel “safe”. Even if that means a divergence from the truth.
In my own personal experience, i’ve found it hard to believe that anyone would lie to me, probably because thats not how i think. I don’t think the average human mind is wired to understand lies, or the concept of lying, or the idea that what they are being told is the opposite of the truth. Its kind-of a next-level way of thinking, to be able to lie, or to be able to tell that someone else is lying.
Evolutionary pressures imposes these things for people whose ancestors grew up and lived in places where trust and honesty within the tribal or societal group was paramount. Where liars were driven out or exiled because one dishonest person threatens the life and wellbeing of the entire group. So there is a natural selection for trust.
Cue today with migration from other entirely foreign groups who developed very differently and lie constantly about everything, even to each other... when mixed into a high-trust society, the damage is impossible to understate.
There are some dumb people who are intelligent but have no education to magnify that into something good, and there are dumb people who have an education that just regurgitates the same bullshit they're told.
You can see scenario #1 in hood rats who are somehow incredibly crafty, handy, able to cook up drugs in some cases, evade capture and being killed, and very good with money in the least expected ways. If they applied themselves and got a good education, there are a multitude of potential paths that are legal and wholesome for them.
Cuz they have no real world experiences in anything.
8m a high school drop out.no GED nothing as far as education. I'm a mechanic but can do or build anything. I consider myself the smartest person I've ever met. Many people will tell you I may act dumb but and the smartest Fulkerson they know.
I don't know everything but I know a little about everything.
In some ways computers can seem to be very smart. They process information fast and accurately. There are lots of people who have fast, accurate minds but little insight or imagination and little ability to deal with ambiguity and scant originality.
The good learners are generally not the original thinkers, the ones who bring light into the darkness of the unknown.
intelligence is different than wisdom. You can have a million degrees, it basically means you're really good at memorization and following instructions.
Why are “intelligent” people so damn stupid?
Because they're scared shitless of being associated with the "dumb" people they look down on.
because they believe the fear they have been fed. If one is fearful they are very easy to control.
Intelligence ought be highly correlated to a mind inquiring enough to test the veracity in what they are being told, the reputation of the teller and what their history of being honest or dishonest is, evaluate the likelihoods of the outcomes that the tellers insist are the risks that justify extreme responses, look for motivations that might be leading people to deceive based on profit or blackmail, and all the rest of the standard intellectual set of tools.
If they cant do this, or dont have the time, or whatever excuse they come up with, I dont accept they have the gifts they claim to. Regardless of whatever tenure or professorship they hold.
I agree 100%. Some would argue people like us overthink everything. They are wrong. We think down all the logical paths that look to be possible for the issue at hand. We don't stop when we find the answer that suits us, we continue to think until we come up with the most likely correct answer as well as multiple less likely outcomes.
The problem with the masses, they don't even look for the first outcome, they simply think, why would they lie about this. Except to them this is a rhetorical question. While a thinking man dissects this "rhetorical" question.
I may put this up as a post, would be a good meme if done right.
At this point I’m wondering if the masses think at all. It looks to me like many have been told what to think - in other words they just parrot out what they’ve been told.
When you catch them in a logic fallacy, they freeze up (as their matrix glitches). You can see it in their eyes and then you get angry dismissal, emotional condescension and the end of the conversation.
They don’t want to actually think or to know actual truth; they want to “be right” and feel “safe”. Even if that means a divergence from the truth.
Tenure and professorship have nothing to do with intelligence anyways. It’s all politics, much of it identity driven.
In my own personal experience, i’ve found it hard to believe that anyone would lie to me, probably because thats not how i think. I don’t think the average human mind is wired to understand lies, or the concept of lying, or the idea that what they are being told is the opposite of the truth. Its kind-of a next-level way of thinking, to be able to lie, or to be able to tell that someone else is lying.
Evolutionary pressures imposes these things for people whose ancestors grew up and lived in places where trust and honesty within the tribal or societal group was paramount. Where liars were driven out or exiled because one dishonest person threatens the life and wellbeing of the entire group. So there is a natural selection for trust.
Cue today with migration from other entirely foreign groups who developed very differently and lie constantly about everything, even to each other... when mixed into a high-trust society, the damage is impossible to understate.
Because education is not intelligence.
There are some dumb people who are intelligent but have no education to magnify that into something good, and there are dumb people who have an education that just regurgitates the same bullshit they're told.
You can see scenario #1 in hood rats who are somehow incredibly crafty, handy, able to cook up drugs in some cases, evade capture and being killed, and very good with money in the least expected ways. If they applied themselves and got a good education, there are a multitude of potential paths that are legal and wholesome for them.
You can see scenario #2 in the OP.
Academia promotes memorization and conformity.
Cuz they have no real world experiences in anything.
8m a high school drop out.no GED nothing as far as education. I'm a mechanic but can do or build anything. I consider myself the smartest person I've ever met. Many people will tell you I may act dumb but and the smartest Fulkerson they know.
I don't know everything but I know a little about everything.
In some ways computers can seem to be very smart. They process information fast and accurately. There are lots of people who have fast, accurate minds but little insight or imagination and little ability to deal with ambiguity and scant originality.
The good learners are generally not the original thinkers, the ones who bring light into the darkness of the unknown.
intelligence is different than wisdom. You can have a million degrees, it basically means you're really good at memorization and following instructions.
they are midwits