[ExI] Beyond Meat

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 05/11/2020 23:26, bill w wrote:
>  (I'm probably not even averagely-intelligent, to be honest).  ben
>
> Ben, the quote of the day a few days ago by Golda Meir, seems to apply 
> to you:  "Don't be humble; you are not that great."
>
> You would have been hounded out of this group and totally humiliated 
> as a result of stupid opinions if were you not above average.    bill w

Oh, I don't know. I suspect I may be that great :-[.

I don't deny that for certain kinds of thinking (that partially overlap 
the kind of thinking that goes on here), I'm almost certainly above 
average, but there are many areas where I know I'm sorely lacking. 
Mathematical thinking is one of them, as some of you will know (and it 
vexes me greatly, because I know (or at least glimpse) what I'm 
missing). But there are many other areas. This group, I'm sure, will 
over-value some kinds of intelligence, and under-value or even totally 
discount others. I'm trying to overcome that bias, and look at a wide 
range of areas that could be called 'intelligence', and reckon that, 
averaged over all of them, I'd come in at under 50%. I'm not singling 
myself out, either. I wouldn't be surprised if some others that read 
this list will be similar.

I don't remember who said it, but I take this advice seriously: Hang out 
with people who are smarter than you, some of it might rub off.

-- 
Ben Zaiboc

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