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Comment by Dracophoenix

6 months ago

> While the brilliant person will have higher quality reasoning on average due to the stretching of the distribution... any individual belief or statement they come up with is being drawn from a distribution that still includes boneheadely wrong.

One is reminded of Linus Pauling's flubs on two counts: his obsession with Vitamin C and his denial of quasicrystals.

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