I think more like this:
Ironically I am all three, at different times:-P (as I suspect we all are - perhaps the trick being how honest we are about when each one applies)
I get what you mean, but realistically I don’t end up investing gratuitous amounts of time into anything - and even if I did I’d probably fuck it up and draw incorrect conclusions.
That’s why I depend heavily on Cunningham’s Law and Google.
Hrm, so am I supposed to correct you here? Hehe.
Okay I’ll bite: maybe using Google is relative, as in if everyone around you does no research at all while you do some, then you are ahead of that curve.
Ironically I’m always in the middle.
I have come to the point of linux and server management that I could consider my self the right one but I just can’t bring my self to accept that. ( use gentok as main os, hosts 20 diff services on a server )
Shit boys, we got an I Iz Smurt right here
Don’t know really about that. I have been using linux for about 5 years and have been hosting stuff for year and half now.
Still consider myself a newby in all of that.
I think my brain mashed two replies, one being yours, together and I thought it sounded snobby, now reading it again, it turns out I’m an asshole
No problem, happens to anybody no matter how carefull we try to be about it.
Cheers. Also new to self hosting and trying to automate shit. It’s been rough but it’s getting along.
Have fun on the journey. It’s hard but also rewarding.
1D chess
Socrates if he made memes:
“Neither of us know shit. But I have an advantage! I know that I don’t know shit. But you still think you know shit. Arrogant dumbass!” --Socrates, Probably
“Now let me go diddle this kid”
– Socrates definitely
I learned a long time ago that if I act like a dumbass all the time, nobody will expect anything from me and they will be pleasantly surprised when I manage to do something simple.
High Intelligence is like a faster CPU on a computer: if the software it’s running is crap, it will just be the same crap but faster.
I heard of some book or something that broke society down into smart, dumb, evil, and good people and the combinations of those categories. The author’s argument was that dumb people of any sort are the most dangerous to society since they’re likely to support policies that hurt their own interests. Says you’re better off with smart people even if they’re evil lol
Some years ago I came up with the theory that for high intelligence there is something like the Dunning-Krugger effect: people with just enough intelligence (above average, maybe even what I call “entry-level genius”) to notice they’re more intelligent than most people they cross paths with but not enough to understand the limits of intelligence - in terms of how much extra capability it gives, of how little it matters when thinking is unstructured, just how much people undermine their own intelligence and deceive themselves driven by their own fears and desires, and how in most areas of knowledge domain experience always trumps even the most extraordinary intelligence - thing that natural advantage of them makes them way more capable than what it actually does.
Some of the dumbest intelligent people I crossed paths with were like that: just enough above-average intelligence to feel they’re “superior” to most people but not enough to figure out that the extra CPU power they were born isn’t all-in-all that amazing an advantage, it certainly doesn’t mean they can intellectually most people in intellectual domains they themselves have little experience in, and that it by itself it doesn’t do much to help them without thinks like knowledge, structured thinking and the ability to look for, accept and correct one’s own skill-gaps, knowledge-gaps and even blindspots.
I suspect that part of the problem is that the likelihood of one such person crossing paths with the trully extraordinary intelligences (for example, an IQ of 180 or above is present in only about 1 out every 1 million people, so there is a pretty low chance to cross paths with those outside certain professional or educational environments) means many such “entry-level geniouses” run around feeling like they’re superior people, never having been disavowed of that notion by somebody who can run intellectual circles around them.
When someone tells me I’m a genius … usually its code for “great, you figure it all out, do all the work, sort it out, organize it, maintain it and fix it if need be … and I’ll just sit here and enjoy all the benefits of your work … now get back to work you genius”
Classical overthinker problems
My solution so far has been to Stop Giving a Fuck™
Life is more fun when you learn this cheat code.
That’s dumb.
Just be honest with yourself.
I’m also too lazy to invest significant time into anything. 🤷♂️
The unwise man thinks all to know, while he sits in a sheltered nook; but he knows not one thing, what he shall answer, if men shall put him to proof.
- Havamal 26, Gestaþáttr
