what i remember of your post, made me think of cases when smart people are raised by people who don’t know how to raise smart kids to know that others arent like them and how to get on despite that.
it’s like a tall guy going—why do people keep needing to get ladders for stuff, or keep not being able to dunk or reach things??
This, but when the tall guy says “oh, I finally get it—everyone else is shorter than me!”, everyone is shocked and insists that this is a horrible thing to say or even think, and the tall guy should be really ashamed.
(Or when he writes an article saying “I think it makes sense if I model other people like myself, but shorter”.)
the thing here if meta=cognition or self reflection or agency, not smart. there are smart people who are lacking that, and not smart people who have that. there is probably correlation, but it doesn’t look that strong to me.
what i remember of your post, made me think of cases when smart people are raised by people who don’t know how to raise smart kids to know that others arent like them and how to get on despite that.
it’s like a tall guy going—why do people keep needing to get ladders for stuff, or keep not being able to dunk or reach things??
This, but when the tall guy says “oh, I finally get it—everyone else is shorter than me!”, everyone is shocked and insists that this is a horrible thing to say or even think, and the tall guy should be really ashamed.
(Or when he writes an article saying “I think it makes sense if I model other people like myself, but shorter”.)
the thing here if meta=cognition or self reflection or agency, not smart. there are smart people who are lacking that, and not smart people who have that. there is probably correlation, but it doesn’t look that strong to me.