Truly intelligent people are curious. Curious minds understand that nothing is simple, and that something as seemingly mundane as a poodle is actually a series of complex systems and biological history spanning billions of years.
Nothing is ever as easy as you think it is. I'm a software engineer, and everyone in my field has had a moment where they thought "this is a really simple thing I can do in 10 minutes" only to find themselves hours later scratching their head and switching between a dozen StackOverflow tabs
Intelligence isn't a one-dimensional attribute, though. People can exhibit talents for pattern recognition and deep reasoning without being enthralled by gossip. People can have a compulsion to tinker without ever meaningfully improving their objects of obsession.
A poodle might be socially or biologically complex, but daily conversations about the poodle won't necessarily reveal any of that complexity. In the same vein, once you've built one solar generator, you've built them all. Simplicity in these system is one of their major appeals. You don't need a 6 hour long WTYP episode to explain why your solar rig isn't working or why the neighbor's poodle shat in your yard again. The explanations tend to be pretty straightforward.
Truly intelligent people are curious. Curious minds understand that nothing is simple, and that something as seemingly mundane as a poodle is actually a series of complex systems and biological history spanning billions of years.
Nothing is ever as easy as you think it is. I'm a software engineer, and everyone in my field has had a moment where they thought "this is a really simple thing I can do in 10 minutes" only to find themselves hours later scratching their head and switching between a dozen StackOverflow tabs
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We don't do things because they are easy; we do things because we think they will be easy.
Intelligence isn't a one-dimensional attribute, though. People can exhibit talents for pattern recognition and deep reasoning without being enthralled by gossip. People can have a compulsion to tinker without ever meaningfully improving their objects of obsession.
A poodle might be socially or biologically complex, but daily conversations about the poodle won't necessarily reveal any of that complexity. In the same vein, once you've built one solar generator, you've built them all. Simplicity in these system is one of their major appeals. You don't need a 6 hour long WTYP episode to explain why your solar rig isn't working or why the neighbor's poodle shat in your yard again. The explanations tend to be pretty straightforward.