Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The Problem With Really Smart People" video.

Have you ever thought that might be a response to meeting more with opinions that are more informed by feeling they're right but don't bother check that they're right against the facts? Humans don't fully understand a lot of things including their own psychology, including the inherent limitations of being human. Talking about intelligence is so much of a pissing contest, that the fact that intelligence is contextual often escapes notice. Felon Musk couldn't last a month on his own in the Amazon jungle, and come out harmed. And likewise the tribes people of the Amazon can negotiate that environment successfully. But put them in font of a tesla, they're not going to manage well. That status bug in our software is often misleading. And emotions aren't facts, they're messages that you don't like needs to be dealt with. Neil didn't pull your trigger; you did. And it just might be because he seemed to poo-poo something you believed. Well, that's life. This why we need to separate truth/facts from beliefs. Just because we want to believe something is true doesn't make it true. And it's wise to hold our ideas lightly and not over identify with them. Why? Truth be told, getting stuff wrong is part of knowledge creation. If you're not getting stuff wrong you aren't learning anything. You have to test your ideas against reality. And Reality spares no-one. No-one is immune to its lessons. So everyone has opinions but most amount to just that. What's important is whether that opinion has been throughly questioned or not by the person sharing it. And if you don't know, find out for yourself. Stress test it to destruction if you can before you let it live in your head rent free. Let your curiosity lead you to truth and wisdom with plenty of humility on the way to give your mind depth and residence. You just do you.
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