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178 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 26 Jun \ parent \ on: Why Are Bitcoiners Idiots? AskSN
I have found a lot of alpha in being good at recognizing quality people.
It seems simple, but this thread gives many examples of why it's not. Assuming that the hated tribe is composed entirely of idiots is the most trivial illustration, but there are others, most of them rooted in the almost overwhelming need to feel good about yourself, about the rightness of your own beliefs and to justify the things that you're doing and want to do.
Hard swim upstream of that, but worth it. You make better and more useful friends, if nothing else.
I dated a lady for a while who said people who use the noun "quality" without a modifier like "high" or "low" were idiots.
her opinion was ugly, to me. but it's the sort of nitpick that the OP is suggesting is a sign of idiocy.
this lady was super intelligent, at some things, but drove away many people by being drastically reactive to disagreements. she and I are still friendly & emotionally close, but she's dug herself a hole: people don't like her because she's so rude about seemingly insignificant issues.
I think the issues she raises are correct, but improperly weighted in her judgement process: accounting the relative quality of other people's opinions.
a) opinions should be qualified by their insight and correctness, not their articulation.
b) articulation, can be qualified by correctness, too, and it's a separate issue.
these two points are central to the argument that the original IQ tests were biased in favor of "western" ideals about supposed intelligence, and not actually able to measure intellectual acumen.
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