I’ve heard it explained as practical intelligence vs. abstract intelligence. Understanding calculus won’t help you frame a house, produce slate tiles for its roof, cast the iron for a potbelly stove that keeps it warm, etc., but it will help to calculate the trajectory of a space probe that your country is using to investigate an asteroid, or tap the stock market, do your own taxes without error, strategize saving/investment for your retirement, calculate the dimensions for a culvert that keeps a property from flooding, etc.

It’s debatable, see @Gustephan@lemmy.world’s comment below, they’re pretty close to the common consensus.

Solid take, I hear more people saying this whenever it’s discussed. Although it’s a pretty decent measure for natural intellectual capacity, a lot of that potential isn’t wholly practical even in modern society. Good for studies, math, science and Mensa, not so useful for nearly everything else.

I audibly laughed hard, this is so amazing.

Unsure about “permanent ban”, but have only recreated a duplicate profile as a means to follow the same content without commenting or posting.

I hopped onto the Reddit train late in the game, partially because I was busy elsewhere, but also because of the kind of bullshit that I’d heard about which wound up being pretty accurate. Inter-subreddit feuding, mod omnipotence wielded without the sort of checks and balances or the discretion that it should be, etc. I’m a little annoyed, but not really all that put out given how little I valued it to begin with. It’s said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but there wasn’t even so much power to be had, some Mods were perfectly reasonable while others were practically bursting at the seams to fuck with users and jerk themselves off about it. I’ll settle for news, steam giveaways and smut, thank-you-very-much.

The Loosh Farm.

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