My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: humor wisdom nerd nerds sense-of-humor nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wit sophistication internet nerd nerds irony post-modernism autism nerdiness post-ironic post-modern nerdery wisdom-vs-nerds intellectual-sophistication reddit
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George
W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.
Tag: wisdom intelligence nerd nerds autism nerdiness iq wisdom-vs-nerds
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom atheism nerd nerds rationalism empiricism nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds reddit 4chan pitfalls-of-bad-thinking rationalists white-male-privilege white-privilege
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom art poetry intuition nerd nerds autism details nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
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