How do you know you aren't smart? - eviltoast

To me it is chess. I know how the piece move but that is it.

  • Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever met a genuinely smart person that wasn’t kind. Most insufferable people I’ve met weren’t outstandingly smart. But maybe that’s just the bubble I live in and a little bit of luck.

    Or I’m just very tolerant and have a high ceiling for what I’d describe as insufferable.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I think intelligence brings with an awareness of the scale of all knowledge, and that imbues a sense of humility. It’s the people who let it get to their head, maybe because they solved one problem within their locus, or managed to monetize one thing that puts them at an economic advantage, and it ruins their character.