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Calvin Trillin is pretty smart
« on: October 15, 2009, 01:41:23 pm »
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Re: Calvin Trillin is pretty smart
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 01:55:32 pm »
I like this.
It is a thing that most of the people I know whom I consider really intelligent (at least academically) all seem intent in going into industries where they'll make basically no money, or at least not a lot of money for the time it takes to get qualified.
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Re: Calvin Trillin is pretty smart
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2009, 02:05:57 pm »
Damn that makes a lot of sense.

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Re: Calvin Trillin is pretty smart
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2009, 03:04:13 pm »
A-CAP and I should swap jobs for the benefit of humanity, I guess.
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Re: Calvin Trillin is pretty smart
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 03:50:15 am »
But now I wonder if I value 'non-practical' intelligence for some reason? Intelligence is a tricky thing to measure, or even define.
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