Episode 96: So, What Do You Do?
Two Psychologists Four Beers
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The Cult of Smart by Freddy De Bora
There's no intrinsic moral worth to being smarter, less smart. And for other characteristics, I think we recognize that, right? Like, I'm not a trendically worse because I can't dribble a basketball, but intelligence has this special status for us. Yeah. It does seem like there's other characteristics that are just equally controllable or uncontrollable that we might admire somebody for and it would be like an insult to imply that somebody wasn't smart.Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. The fact that we like admire people who are smart suggests that we think like they did something to get there or whatever,. That seems more possible to me than the idea that
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