What is your exact claim? That people don’t have the ability to apply their intelligence if they chose to do so or that they simple don’t choose to apply their intelligence?
Good question/point.
One claim I’m definitely making is that people don’t choose to do so. As to the question of whether or not they have the ability… I’m not sure. People really do seem as if they don’t have the ability, if only for reasons of close-mindedness (rather than lack of aptitude). But if you put a gun to their head and asked them what their true beliefs are… I’m not sure what they’d say.
What to you mean with intelligence?
I mean that I judge people to be stupid based on how low they’re capable of stooping. Ie. how stupid they’re capable of being. Really, “my definition” of stupid is a bit more involved, but that’s mostly it.
As for different standards in different domains, I agree, but I don’t think that peoples stupidity can be explained by that. I think they’re actually being stupid. Outside the Laboratory sort of explains what I mean.
If you are smart but use the wrong heuristic for a given problem the results can look stupid even if you apply that heuristic very well.
When it comes to the scientists who has different standards for religious claims I think different standards for different domains are a good explanation. The person doesn’t use the laboratory standards when the don’t wear their lab coat.
But that isn’t always bad. It very hard to have normal small talk in the scientific mindset. Small talk usually works much better when you don’t overthink and don’t inhabit yourself.
There nothing stupid about treating arguments as soldiers. It’s more a matter of having goals that aren’t about uncovering the truth.
Good question/point.
One claim I’m definitely making is that people don’t choose to do so. As to the question of whether or not they have the ability… I’m not sure. People really do seem as if they don’t have the ability, if only for reasons of close-mindedness (rather than lack of aptitude). But if you put a gun to their head and asked them what their true beliefs are… I’m not sure what they’d say.
I mean that I judge people to be stupid based on how low they’re capable of stooping. Ie. how stupid they’re capable of being. Really, “my definition” of stupid is a bit more involved, but that’s mostly it.
As for different standards in different domains, I agree, but I don’t think that peoples stupidity can be explained by that. I think they’re actually being stupid. Outside the Laboratory sort of explains what I mean.
If you are smart but use the wrong heuristic for a given problem the results can look stupid even if you apply that heuristic very well.
When it comes to the scientists who has different standards for religious claims I think different standards for different domains are a good explanation. The person doesn’t use the laboratory standards when the don’t wear their lab coat.
But that isn’t always bad. It very hard to have normal small talk in the scientific mindset. Small talk usually works much better when you don’t overthink and don’t inhabit yourself.
There nothing stupid about treating arguments as soldiers. It’s more a matter of having goals that aren’t about uncovering the truth.