I also have this model, and think it well-predicts lots of human behavior. But it doesn’t feel obvious to me that it also well-predicts the behavior of this 50, who I would expect to be unusually motivated by explicit arguments, unusually likely to gravitate toward the most interesting explicit arguments, etc.
I’ve been told, by people much smarter than me, and more connected to even smarter people, that the very elite, in terms of IQ have a sense of learned helplessness about the world.
According to this story, the smartest people in the world look around, and see stupidity all around them: the world is populated by, controlled by, such people who regularly make senseless decisions, and can’t even tell that they’re senseless. And it is obvious that trying to get people to understand is hopeless: aside from the fact that most of them basically can’t understand, you are small, and the world is huge.
So these people go and do math, and make a good life for themselves, and don’t worry about the world.
I also have this model, and think it well-predicts lots of human behavior. But it doesn’t feel obvious to me that it also well-predicts the behavior of this 50, who I would expect to be unusually motivated by explicit arguments, unusually likely to gravitate toward the most interesting explicit arguments, etc.
I’ve been told, by people much smarter than me, and more connected to even smarter people, that the very elite, in terms of IQ have a sense of learned helplessness about the world.
According to this story, the smartest people in the world look around, and see stupidity all around them: the world is populated by, controlled by, such people who regularly make senseless decisions, and can’t even tell that they’re senseless. And it is obvious that trying to get people to understand is hopeless: aside from the fact that most of them basically can’t understand, you are small, and the world is huge.
So these people go and do math, and make a good life for themselves, and don’t worry about the world.
[I don’t know if this story is true.]