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People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Re: People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Post by dillonmckay »

dyarosla wrote: post #32
Isamu wrote: post #28

A questionnaire from the article: 1) I am willing to admit if I don't know something. 2) I like to compliment others on their intellectual strengths. 3) I try to reflect on my weaknesses in order to develop my intelligence. 4) I actively seek feedback on my ideas, even if it is critical. 5) I acknowledge when someone knows more than me about a certain subject. 6) If someone doesn't understand my idea, it's probably b…

My problem lies in being open minded to hearing out someone who, after enough conversing, has an opinion that you’ve delved into deeply before and have seen the glaring shortcomings of, and when that individual is not open to those factual shortcomings. That is- dealing with stubborn, close minded people, is incredibly difficult to stay open for me- in the best case I just move on.

I always think it is pretty neat when somebody responds, “I’ve never thought about it like that.”

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Post by AmericanChopper »

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC wrote: post #233
AmericanChopper wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made no such assertion. I’m made no comments that attempted to ignore the differences that exist between different belief systems, nor made any comments that said you couldn’t qualitatively differentiate them. Simply that you can’t use the truth as the basis of that differentiation. All belief systems, whether they’re a belief in science as a source of truth, or a religion as a source of truth, are based on asserti…

> All belief systems, whether they’re a belief in science as a source of truth, or a religion as a source of truth, are based on assertions that cannot be proven, and are therefor all equally unprovable. Or in other words: There is no such thing as absolute (mathematical, provable) truth about reality, and if you ignore that there is such a thing as evidence for claims about reality, then all claims are equally justi…

This is really just an incoherent anti-religious rant, with a whole lot of completely unfounded assumptions you’ve made about me personally thrown in.

I have a tremendous amount of faith in science, I have a degree in physics. I simply happen to understand the contextual limitations of the knowledge that I’ve derived from it, something you seem far too arrogant to do yourself.

Re: People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Post by dillonmckay »

yourbandsucks wrote: post #209
Isamu wrote: post #28

A questionnaire from the article: 1) I am willing to admit if I don't know something. 2) I like to compliment others on their intellectual strengths. 3) I try to reflect on my weaknesses in order to develop my intelligence. 4) I actively seek feedback on my ideas, even if it is critical. 5) I acknowledge when someone knows more than me about a certain subject. 6) If someone doesn't understand my idea, it's probably b…

I feel like for 8 and 9, the right answer is actually that you are uncomfortable and don't like it. The only people who would deny those things are phonies who aren't in touch with themselves. Accept it, acknowledge it, account for the bias it brings. Then maybe one could work on it.

You are assuming your reaction is the only legitimate reaction.

Some people like being uncomfortable because it motivates them.

Being comfortable for some people can lead to complacency.

Re: People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

dillonmckay wrote: post #238
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #234

Politics is interesting from a meta standpoint because if there are millions of people taking a political standpoint different from yours, the odds are quite strong that there are people who are well-informed with good intentions who have thought through their position in-depth and have reached a different conclusion than you have. It's also obviously a place where humans act the most like herd animals. So when you f…

There was a study sometime ago, about using a PET scan, to gauge responses about various topics, and the majority of the folks used the same part of their brain for both politics and sports teams. Using their ‘gut’, not logical reasoning.

There has been a lot of research that points to the brain acting first, then justifying whatever actions it took.

I believe this to be the natural state of affairs. I think the brain is as maximally lazy as it can be. This translates to clanning with a large-ish group of people, then trusting that group to make a good collective decision. Act immediately on social observation and emotion and then if absolutely necessary come back and revisit the action to figure out "why" you did it.

If this is the way it works, then the default viewpoint regarding anything we do or say should be highly suspicious from a rational standpoint. It also means that we tech folks have spent a lot of time and effort trying to create artificial intelligence that reasons from logic to action, the complete opposite of the way real intelligence works.

Re: People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Post by NonlocalityGuy »

NonlocalityGuy wrote: post #103

Converging lines suggest something very legit about "Nonlocal consciousness". Stay with me. If indeed the case, than we all need a factory reboot on our perceived truths. HIGHLY LIKELY our projected selves built on flawed societal norms. False intuitions. The sooner the masses embraces this new paradigm the better. Healing our planet, healing ourselves... intellectual humility is key no doubt, but those power brokers…

"A Non Dimensional Model Of Reality" #NOBELPRIZE I am not familiar with anyone who has developed a model quite like Michael E. Byrne's. Brilliant. Opens the kimono on how a "Zero Dimension" may propagate consciousness (at the very least our subconscious) via "wave functions" in this pre-Big Bang "non separate or unified" environment.

\,,/._)> "live long and prosper"

http://sciencefront.org/ojs/index.php/jfap/article/view/86

Re: People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Post by AbitofAsum »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #225
te_platt wrote: post #134

A few years ago the guy I was sharing an office with at work was cleaning off his desk and found a stack of resumes. He said they were all from the batch that I was hired from and asked if I wanted to know why I was picked. Very cautiously I said yes. He told me I was the only one who when really pushed during the technical interview said "I don't know". Their initial strategy had been to start easy on some topic and…

We HNers really love these kinds of submissions since we think we're so smart. The top comment is literally someone bragging about how they once got a job with their superior applause-worthy character of saying "idk".

Comments like these are why I spend more time reading HN comments than the articles

Re: People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

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Post by throwawaymath »

dillonmckay wrote: post #239
throwawaymath wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise. I open my interviews with the explicit statement that I’d like them to disclaim when they don’t know, and that furthermore, the discussion is arranged around challenging them until we reach that point. We have less than an hour together and I need to judge your technical abilities in an intrinsically imperfect medium. Help me help you - I can only work with what I’m given. If you bullshit, what I’m given is…

Obviously that is part of the point of the interview, though, right? You are able to identify these over-confident people and prevent them from being a toxic influence on a team.

Well yeah, that's why I continue to ask. I guess what I was getting at is that I'm sort of shocked people will still bullshit despite my explicit declaration ahead of time.

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Post by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #242
zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All belief systems, whether they’re a belief in science as a source of truth, or a religion as a source of truth, are based on assertions that cannot be proven, and are therefor all equally unprovable. Or in other words: There is no such thing as absolute (mathematical, provable) truth about reality, and if you ignore that there is such a thing as evidence for claims about reality, then all claims are equally justi…

This is really just an incoherent anti-religious rant, with a whole lot of completely unfounded assumptions you’ve made about me personally thrown in. I have a tremendous amount of faith in science, I have a degree in physics. I simply happen to understand the contextual limitations of the knowledge that I’ve derived from it, something you seem far too arrogant to do yourself.

> I simply happen to understand the contextual limitations of the knowledge that I’ve derived from it

Such as?

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Post by h_r »

hliyan wrote: post #226
hombre_fatal wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We HNers really love these kinds of submissions since we think we're so smart. The top comment is literally someone bragging about how they once got a job with their superior applause-worthy character of saying "idk".

"More intellectual humility was also associated with less “social vigilantism”, defined as seeing other people’s beliefs as inferior."

More like they have a right to their beliefs, inferior or not, as long as they don't try to impose them on me.
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