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Intelligence 1: What makes us intelligent?

Simplifying Complexity

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The Importance of Competence Without Completion

We hold the whole bigoted language around disparaging traits that we don't perform any better than other animals. There's this very interesting fact that the better you are, the more effortless things become. And the more they look like characteristics that we typically do not associate with intelligence. The key point is that true talent in any domain evolves towards or develops towards competence without comprehension.

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