Re:We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned the Bitter Lesson
by RandomLensman on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:22PM
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Does the hire have to wine&dine to sell something? More seriously, people very very rarely hire pure abstraction (I never have seen that).
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Re:We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned the Bitter Lesson
by abecedarius on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:35PM
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Yeah, I agree, and that's one problem with focusing on what "intelligence" means: it kind of connotes, as you say, abstract or academic problems over practical shrewdness. (It doesn't have to have this restriction but people sure seem to take it that way a lot.)