What are some examples of the first? I certainly find myself increasingly thinking that there’s basically no limit to how dumb smart people can be in their dumb moments.
I used to do magic (prestidigitation) when I was younger. Most of the smart people I knew were easily fooled by my tricks. My less bright friends were harder to fool: “you kept it in the other hand.”
We have a saying in Romanian: “Beware the simple-minded; their mind is well rested.”
It’s amazing how smart dumb people are, how dumb dumb people are, how dumb smart people are, and how smart smart people are.
Restated: for any given human, the smartness of their actions has amazingly high variance (?)
What are some examples of the first? I certainly find myself increasingly thinking that there’s basically no limit to how dumb smart people can be in their dumb moments.
I used to do magic (prestidigitation) when I was younger. Most of the smart people I knew were easily fooled by my tricks. My less bright friends were harder to fool: “you kept it in the other hand.”
We have a saying in Romanian: “Beware the simple-minded; their mind is well rested.”
The way I’d phrase it is that intelligent people often act dumb, unless they learn to act smart.
Truest truth I read this month 🎉