Read Paul Graham's essay: Is It Worth Being Wise? this morning. It occurs to me that I value wisdom more than intelligence. I love living in a time where genius has more opportunities to express itself, but I also recognize that I'm not a genius. In the end, while we, as a community of beings, … Continue reading Wisdom vs. Intelligence & The Shaping of Values
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Seven Varieties of Stupidity
"1. Pure Stupidity...2. Ignorant stupidity...3. Fish-out-of-water stupidity...4. Rule-based stupidity...5. Overthinking stupidity...6. Emergent stupidity...7. Ego-driven stupidity...-Ian Leslie, "Seven Varieties of Stupidity." ianleslie.substack.com. May 21, 2022 It's a fun classification exercise. I'd say that 3 is a subset of 2, being in an unfamiliar environment is a variety of ignorance. However, if you think about the kinds … Continue reading Seven Varieties of Stupidity
Understanding QAnon’s Connection to American Politics, Religion, and Media Consumption
"A nontrivial 15% of Americans agree with the sweeping QAnon allegation that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation,” while the vast majority of Americans (82%) disagree with this statement. Republicans (23%) are significantly more likely than … Continue reading Understanding QAnon’s Connection to American Politics, Religion, and Media Consumption
Meritocracy, Intelligence & Education
"...we need to dismantle meritocracy.DeBoer is skeptical of "equality of opportunity". Even if you solve racism, sexism, poverty, and many other things that DeBoer repeatedly reminds us have not been solved, you'll just get people succeeding or failing based on natural talent......One one level, the titular Cult Of Smart is just the belief that enough … Continue reading Meritocracy, Intelligence & Education
One and One Sometimes Equals Eleven
We often make assumptions that are reasonable in one context, abstract it into a guideline and apply that guideline to a new situation. Often, it is difficult to assess whether these situations are close enough to apply what we know to what we don't. At base, this is the problem of induction. There is no … Continue reading One and One Sometimes Equals Eleven
How Not to Be Stupid
"...stupidity is the cost of intelligence operating in a complex environment...[Stupidity:] overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information...When it comes to overloading our cognitive brains, the seven factors are: being outside of your circle of competence, stress, rushing or urgency, fixation on an outcome, information overload, and being in the presence of an “authority.” Acting alone any of … Continue reading How Not to Be Stupid
Cyber Brief: Cryptolog | National Security Archive
"Five years ago, the National Security Agency (NSA) released 136 issues of its internal Cryptolog periodical spanning 1974 through 1997. The collection offered a look into the some of the discussions being held within one of America’s most secretive intelligence agencies. Today the GWU-based National Security Archive is providing a complete index of all 1,504 … Continue reading Cyber Brief: Cryptolog | National Security Archive
The DIA Director’s 2018 Reading List
Tired of the ordinary book suggestion lists? Try the DIA Director's 2018 Reading List, which has some interesting non-fiction reading suggestions from the U.S. intelligence community.
The Irony of Intelligence
"This is the irony of intelligence: the people with the time and effort to evade it are almost by definition uninteresting to the people they are attempting to evade." — Pwn ██ ██ ███; Error 404(b)(1): 702 auth not found (@pwnallthethings). Twitter. December 30, 2017.
Not as Smart
Not as Smart from webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines.
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