Wasnt this link posted not too long ago?
Willingness to look stupid
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#342Intelligence is cultural and I think many people don’t realize that. If I were to be dropped off in a random place on Earth I would encounter people, most likely, I wouldn’t be able to communicate with and even if they did understand me based upon who they are I may seem very stupid. In the wilderness I don’t have a lot of real survival skills and if someone discovered what I was doing to survive I may come off as very stupid in that context as well. Lots of examples and scenarios for this. For myself I have to consider things like just because someone hasn’t read history or literature and doesn’t understand the references I’m making does that make them stupid? Does their culture even concern itself with these things? Who am I to judge ultimately what makes someone stupid or not?
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#343This has happened to me frequently at my current company. I get pulled into a meeting about something that I have no context on because it touches my area of expertise, and the discussions have apparently been stalling out. I brace myself to be the idiot. I'm going to waste everyone's time asking questions that everyone knows the answer to, and I just got looped in, so everyone's going to feel like they need to walk…
Yes and it feels like the older I get the more I have to be the one that plays this role to ask these basic questions as younger professionals are fearful to look dumb in front of others
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Naturally, the established powers and polite society didn't find this to their liking. We all know how his story ended. Socrates was sentenced to death not for exposing how little everyone else knew. The esteemed philosopher was sentenced to death because he was deliberately annoying people - like a fly - with badgering questions that would force the questionee into a corner. Today we call this method of exposing c…
> The esteemed philosopher was sentenced to death because he was deliberately annoying people No. Socrates was executed because he was associated with the worst rulers that the city of Athens had ever known, all former students of his, who notably went on to kill thousands of Athenian citizens (not enemies, strangers, or slaves), following the defeat in the Peloponnesian War. After the tyrants were killed and democra…
Well, he was executed because when asked what punishment seemed just to Socrates, he said he should be given free meals (like the Olympic champions), rather than suggesting a fine of 50 minas. So Hemlock it was.
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#345One way to prove that he truly doesn't mind looking stupid would be to list times when he risked looking stupid... and it turns out he actually was. It's happened to all of us though we dont like to admit it. I'm sure it's happened to him too and I looked but I didn't see any of those examples listed. Giving only examples of when people thought he was dumb and it turned out he wasn't... that's kind of just a roundabo…
Yes, every example is "I sounded stupid but I was actually correct". From the title I thought the article was going to be about not being afraid to learn new things.
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#346As a man, every condescending comment you get in person only tells you one thing: your deadlift PR is still too low. Get jacked and all these problems disappear. No matter how silly your questions and objections, no matter how dumb they may think you are, all your concerns will be treated very seriously, criticism couched in most polite terms, and weird stuff written off as eccentric. (It helps to be taller, well-dre…
I can't think of a single politician, CEO, professor, author or esteemed leader where this holds true. If anything, I think the meathead/jock/gymrat stereotype is more pervasive.
I interpreted GP as saying being jacked is a sufficient, but not necessary, condition to people not condescending you
And sure they might think you’re a meathead, but they sure won’t tell you that.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why he was asking for the smallest box, though? Isn't that an inefficient proxy? Wouldn't asking to see the computers have been more accurate?
I am really curious what his end goal here was. Apple's boxes are all very small — in what situation would a few centimeters in box size outweigh all other considerations?
The reason is obscure if nothing else.
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#348He writes "the smallest box". But the set (width, height, depth) of the dimensions of the boxes is not totally ordered. So this question makes no sense.
Maybe he means another metric, e.g. by volume? But:
- first problem, he seems to expect that people with whom he talks should not make assumptions
- second problem, does he really expect the store clerk to calculate the volumes of all the boxes?
I don't know, are we sure he is not actually stupid?
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who has been deplatformed for questioning the status quo? Isn’t literally all of BLM challenging the status quo?
one example: vaccines are the status quo, I presume you agree on that. Most platforms are removing content that cause "vaccine hesitancy". YouTube has even expanded their this to apply to all vaccines [1]. Furthermore, it seems relevant to point out that dictionaries have updated their definitions of "anti-vaxxer" to include anyone questioning even the government mandates themselves [2], which has opened the door to…
It must only be pretty extreme cases as Russel Brand and Brett Weinstein still have their videos up.
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#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
While this guy is clearly smart, and willingness to ask simple questions is a worthy quality that many people possess, this is an article about what happens when decent intelligence and a good instinct is accompanied by narcissism and delusions of grandeur. Being right about something feels even better if other people thought you were wrong about it. With his COVID action— people disagreeing with him, at first, wasn'…
I agree he's probably a self-entitled know-it-all, but I think at least his conclusion for COVID was spot on. By 2020-01-26 Wuhan (a major Chinese city) was already under lock down, so it was pretty clear CoVID19 was serious. I live in Asia, so I'm not in a position to understand the sentiment in (for example) the US, so the "let's wait until we have more data" attitude is really perplexing to me. Sure, there was no…
I agree with you about COVID. In January, we had videos of China blocking roads that led to Wuhan, soldiers in the streets, people disinfecting the streets. At this point, I knew that it was probably going to be serious.