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howunfortunate • yesterday at 10:35 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This is simply untrue. I tried to think of an animal example so I could give a concession, and there just...aren't any.

Smarter just means smarter.


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hennell • yesterday at 11:29 PM

As anyone who's needed to provide IT support to a doctor, lawyer, lauded academic or host of otherwise "smart professionals", can assert, you can be very very smart in one area and very stupid in another.

See for example Paul Framton https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/30/physicist-mode...

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