| 2007-02-25 11:00:53
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| 11:00:53 | Lucifer | Time to start? |
| 11:01:03 | Lucifer | Welcome to the chat |
| 11:01:11 | Lucifer | This week's topic is "Is it worth being wise?" |
| 11:01:27 | Lucifer | the topic was inspired by a Paul Graham essay of the same name |
| 11:01:35 | Lucifer | http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html |
| 11:01:53 | Lucifer | First some definitions to set the context |
| 11:02:19 | Lucifer | Paul contrasts "wise" and "smart" |
| 11:02:33 | Lucifer | they're both ways of being intelligent |
| 11:02:54 | Lucifer | as in knowing what to do, the right choices to make or the best decision in a situation |
| 11:03:06 | Lucifer | (this is consistent with my own view of intelligence) |
| 11:03:24 | Lucifer | the difference across situations |
| 11:03:38 | Lucifer | wisdom is knowing what to do in a wide variety of situations |
| 11:04:03 | Lucifer | smart is making the right choice is a few specific situations |
| 11:04:22 | Lucifer | You can envision it as a curve on a 2D surface... |
| 11:04:33 | Lucifer | Here's how Paul puts it |
| 11:04:34 | Sat | * Sat puts on his 2d glasses |
| 11:04:43 | Lucifer | "Wise" and "smart" are both ways of saying someone knows what to do. The difference is that "wise" means one has a high average outcome across all situations, and "smart" means one does spectacularly well in a few. |
| 11:04:52 | Lucifer | That is, if you had a graph in which the x axis represented situations and the y axis the outcome, the graph of the wise person would be high overall, and the graph of the smart person would have high peaks. |
| 11:05:07 | Sat | * Sat nods |
| 11:05:24 | Sat | Futura test |
| 11:05:28 | Lucifer | Everyone with me so far? goomba? googlebot? |
| 11:05:32 | googlebot | * googlebot scoots |
| 11:05:49 | Sat | * Sat scoots |
| 11:06:17 | Lucifer | OK, so given a choice between being wise and smart everyone would choose wise, right? |
| 11:06:23 | Lucifer | but there is a catch |
| 11:06:39 | SLacker | [gallery] Lucifer Darrow: hmm |
| 11:06:53 | SLacker | [gallery] Lucifer Darrow: SLacer stopped sending |
| 11:06:58 | SLacker | [gallery] Lucifer Darrow: bah |
| 11:07:10 | Lucifer | test |
| 11:07:12 | Sat | cheeky bots |
