eldritch_horror@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWhat are the pros and cons of cancelling democracy and putting the smart people in charge?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaremayotte2048@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoBrilliant people are only brilliant at their area of expertise. They can be horribly, even dangerously stupid in other areas. What’s worse is that they often think they are brilliant at everything. (See Linus Pauling, vitamin c.)
minus-squareeldritch_horror@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoAgreed. We’d want the broad kind of smartness, of course.
Brilliant people are only brilliant at their area of expertise. They can be horribly, even dangerously stupid in other areas. What’s worse is that they often think they are brilliant at everything. (See Linus Pauling, vitamin c.)
Agreed. We’d want the broad kind of smartness, of course.