Comments on: Adam Smith and I Have Something in Common http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2007/10/24/adam-smith-and-i-have-something-in-common/ The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. - F.A. Hayek Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:32:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: wintercow20 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2007/10/24/adam-smith-and-i-have-something-in-common/#comment-14 wintercow20 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:02:02 +0000 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2007/10/24/adam-smith-and-i-have-something-in-common/#comment-14 I think the relationship is something like ... the most intelligent people I know tend to be the most self-assured. And while that is a generally useful attribute, I think it lends itself to dogmatism, rigidity and elitism, which make not only for unpalatable political positions, but a lack of interesting exchange, as you reference above. Luckily for me I am not too intelligent, and at least hope I have the ability to recognize how much there is for me to know. Stick it out in LS, when you are out of there you will be able to do a million things that you would not be able to do otherwise. Plus, without you, what will happen to the voice of reason at these places? I think the relationship is something like … the most intelligent people I know tend to be the most self-assured. And while that is a generally useful attribute, I think it lends itself to dogmatism, rigidity and elitism, which make not only for unpalatable political positions, but a lack of interesting exchange, as you reference above.

Luckily for me I am not too intelligent, and at least hope I have the ability to recognize how much there is for me to know.

Stick it out in LS, when you are out of there you will be able to do a million things that you would not be able to do otherwise. Plus, without you, what will happen to the voice of reason at these places?

]]> By: Don http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2007/10/24/adam-smith-and-i-have-something-in-common/#comment-13 Don Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:15:15 +0000 http://theunbrokenwindow.com/2007/10/24/adam-smith-and-i-have-something-in-common/#comment-13 You think you have it bad? Imagine having to deal with Leftys all day every day and never having a discussion worth remembering. LS is way more boring than I could've ever imagined...Sure your dilemma is career-based but...No: you're right: you do indeed have it a worse than I do. Sorry Mike. If I had a journal, I would publish your paper in an instant, and I would demand it be free of confoundematics. Here's something you could model: why does it seem that the more intelligent a person is, the more they tend to be correspondingly uninteresting? I'm surrounded by boring smart people and I don't understand how or why that could happen... You think you have it bad? Imagine having to deal with Leftys all day every day and never having a discussion worth remembering. LS is way more boring than I could’ve ever imagined…Sure your dilemma is career-based but…No: you’re right: you do indeed have it a worse than I do.

Sorry Mike. If I had a journal, I would publish your paper in an instant, and I would demand it be free of confoundematics.

Here’s something you could model: why does it seem that the more intelligent a person is, the more they tend to be correspondingly uninteresting? I’m surrounded by boring smart people and I don’t understand how or why that could happen…

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