Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Thoughty2" channel.

  1. Highly intelligent people tend to suffer from the Imposter Syndrome which is the counterpart from the other end of the spectrum from Dunning-Kruger. They both are the result of the impossibility of knowing how much we actually know. In order to know how much we know, we'd have to know more than we personally know. The two phenomena are two different strategies for dealing with that. Intelligent people tend to underestimate themselves. Unintelligent people tend to overestimate themselves. But, it's also worth considering that if you think you don't know much, there's more incentive to learn more whereas if you think you know everything, there's little reason to learn more.
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  2. Considering how large eagles get, I could only imagine just how large the largest bird would be. Some of the larger eagles are so large that one person can't reach from wingtip to wingtip.
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  3. I recently had somebody more or less say the same thing. He seemed to think that as a non-English speaker that he was more qualified to know what a phrase meant. Not to mention that he knows more than the people who compile dictionaries and the vast majority of uses of that particular phrase.
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  4. I'm taken to understand that a tilt-shift camera lens would allow you to get a direct on shot of a person standing in front of a mirror without capturing the camera in the mirror or using any digital trickery. That being said, you'd have to be moderately intelligent to be able to set that up. Certainly more so than somebody who didn't look in the mirror and realize that he was seeing what everybody else would see.
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  5. "Why do people incorrectly quote me on the Internet?" -Confucius
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  6. This has been my observation. It's not that the music is bad per se, it's that it's lacking in soul and doesn't seem to communicate much.
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  7. I personally look forward to being proven wrong. Sadly, it happens less and less over time as I learn more and other people spend more time watching reality TV.
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  8. Indeed, it's rather obvious that the planet is banana shaped.
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  9. I've had a bunch of arguments like that. I mostly just engage in them because I'm feeling kind of grouchy and it helps me avoid annoying people I see in person. It never ceases to amaze me when people prove my point about them not knowing what they're doing far more thoroughly than I could ever do. The funniest thing is that they don't even realize it.
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  10.  @Superabound2  And it doesn't work very well. If you punish somebody, you teach them to avoid being caught, which may or may not include ceasing the activity that triggers the punishment.
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  11. That's really bad advice in many situations. For example, when learning to ride the motorcycle, it's better to open your mouth and be thought a fool than to keep your mouth closed and be a grease spot on the pavement.
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  12. That would be the Imposter Syndrome, it's the more intelligent counterpart to Dunning-Kruger. Typically, it means that you're above average intelligence as unintelligent people don't usually underestimate themselves.
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  13. That's true, but if you synthesize what they say, you can get rather smart.
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