The Intellectual Yet Idiot

TheRedPillMonkey · 2019-04-05T12:44:10+00:00

So essentially he's saying really smart people have the capability to do really dumb things? To be blinded by ones own thoughts and look for confirmation bias? To focus intently on their opinions and disregard others? To see the world only through their lens?

Well yeah. They're human too. Even the author did it a few times in this article by assuming only his opinion was correct.

Also, what's the TRP theory here?

2019-04-05T16:11:20+00:00

Skin in the Game should be required reading. It explains a lot about modern society very quickly.

Whisper · 2019-04-05T17:43:39+00:00

This is simply my article on Scienceism in Taleb-speak.

As an additional observation, the reason that rednecks are so frequently right, and academic experts so frequently wrong is that the there is a hierarchy of knowledge, in order of usefulness:

Specific experience about the exact problem under discussion.
Specific experience with other very similar problems in the same field.
Specific experience with analogous problems.
General expertise about the field of the problem.
Being highly intelligent.
Being highly educated in some other field.
Having a degree from an Ivy League school that naive people still think admits students based on merit.
Sounding intelligent by reading a teleprompter well like Barrack Obama.

The split between rednecks who get shit done, and academics who come up with grandiose theories and break stuff, generally happens around #4.

This is, for example, is hwy the newly-formed Soviet Union decided to teach the peasants how to grow food. After all, they were educated men with fancy degrees, and the peasants were just a bunch of yokels who could barely read and hadn't done anything for generations except... grow food.

FieldLine · 2019-04-05T18:00:12+00:00

If you liked this you'd also like Tom Wolfe's Commencement Address to the Boston University Class of 2000

(Start from about half way down from the paragraph "Now, we must be careful to make a distinction....")

Kurush559 · 2019-04-05T13:56:23+00:00

That final line was brilliant.

CatoTheHungry · 2019-04-05T16:01:25+00:00

One of the best writers ever

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chronogumbo · 2019-04-06T04:32:44+00:00

This dude comes off like the people he's trying to insult

UnbreakableButts · 2019-04-07T03:01:20+00:00

This sounds like an angrier but funnier Thomas Sowell. He even uses the term intelligentsia. I'll definitely check out his books.

chazthundergut · 2019-04-09T18:28:04+00:00

If you havent read Anti-Fragile yet, go read it

Title	The Intellectual Yet Idiot
Author	iam_we
Upvotes	41
Comments	29
Date	April 5, 2019 12:15 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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