[ExI] Beyond Meat

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:31 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 05/11/2020 23:26, bill w wrote:
>
>  (I'm probably not even averagely-intelligent, to be honest).  ben
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> Oh, I don't know. I suspect I may be that great :-[.
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> 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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Hey, how do you think I feel?  My highest class in math was algebra I (much
higher than that in statistics). I don't follow any of that as I can't and
am way too far behind and old to catch up.  Henry and I are the top (only)
guys in psych (and I for one feel underused by the group in that respect).
I have no idea what you mean by 50%.  That doesn't translate to IQ or
anything I know.  But certainly, hang around smart guys.  Where the field
involved requires no intelligence, like politics, it's a free for all.

And think about this:  in fluid intelligence, most of us from over the hill
to way over the hill.  Anything past 40 is old - even 30 sometimes.

bill w

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