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Convinced myself the smartest people are actually the stupidest people. Check this out: so we know from AI that symbolic manipulation is actually not that hard. This was sorta of a solved problem early on. What was really really hard was PERCEPTION.
And, in general, there's this theory coming from @plinz that you use the CONSCIOUS MIND (which is low resolution, and low horsepower) because it can be used to recursively work on the system, when the system is FAILING.
So, present-at-hand, ready-at-hand, remember? What ought to be transparent when it's functioning well becomes visible when it's failing.
And so, in general, people using their conscious mind a whole bunch are doing so because SOMETHING GOT BROKEN. Something broke. The perceptual-action loop isnt working well enough to effortlessly always already meet your goals. Hence you need to 'get conscious' and fiddle with it
BUT the purpose of getting conscious, of using conscious thought, SHOULD BE to correct the loop: to FIX your perception. And we KNOW that you can take meta actions to do so (hello, eyeglasses). But the point is to fix it and then GO BACK to effortless flow living.
Now the SMARTEST people completely lose track of this and, instead, go spend their brain on quantum theory or whatever the fuck. Is it any wonder you got so many suicidal and depressed """geniuses"""? Lemme tell you if you're suicidal things are NOT going well
Thus, the smartest people not only have broken perception but they also LOST THE WAY and are lost of side-quests instead of GOING BACK and fixing perception which is WHY they're the smartest people. It's one and the same thing.
QED
