I think your perspective on Intelligence vs. Willingness to Think is interesting, but wrong – my model is that how willing you are to think is strongly correlated with how easy thinking is for you, and how easy thinking is for you is pretty directly just what intelligence is (yes, correlation isn’t transitive, and tails come apart, but I think both hold in general for non-weird cases).
I think that’s a somewhat more literal interpretation than I was aiming for; what I’m gesturing at is also partially conveyed in the final paragraph, where I talk about willingness to be wrong.
If what you’re thinking about is easy, what this translates to, I think, is that it’s easy to be right. If you’re wrong most of the time, then it’s not actually very easy.
This is not to say you should think with the intent to be wrong—that’s just another way of doing things the easy way, and is also, I suppose, another way of taking what I’m saying more literally than I intend it. This is a difficult set of concepts to convey, but—if you’re unwilling to struggle, you’re unwilling to think, in the sense that I mean.
I think your perspective on Intelligence vs. Willingness to Think is interesting, but wrong – my model is that how willing you are to think is strongly correlated with how easy thinking is for you, and how easy thinking is for you is pretty directly just what intelligence is (yes, correlation isn’t transitive, and tails come apart, but I think both hold in general for non-weird cases).
I think that’s a somewhat more literal interpretation than I was aiming for; what I’m gesturing at is also partially conveyed in the final paragraph, where I talk about willingness to be wrong.
If what you’re thinking about is easy, what this translates to, I think, is that it’s easy to be right. If you’re wrong most of the time, then it’s not actually very easy.
This is not to say you should think with the intent to be wrong—that’s just another way of doing things the easy way, and is also, I suppose, another way of taking what I’m saying more literally than I intend it. This is a difficult set of concepts to convey, but—if you’re unwilling to struggle, you’re unwilling to think, in the sense that I mean.
Yeah, that clears things up. Thanks!
How do tail come apart—on intelligence versus easy to think?
I guess both stages, but more willingness to think & easiness to think.