1. It helps to define your terms. My definitions, and what I think most people unconsciously mean, are that "smart" is all about making the best decisions and "intelligence" is all about pattern recognition. When you break it down like that it's obvious why "more intelligent" doesn't imply "smarter". The benefit of intelligence is that you can recognize patterns that other people don't, which can make you smarter. The downside is: the pattern might not be real, the pattern might not matter, analysis paralysis, etc. All of which can make you dumber. There's always a trade off. The post sums it up pretty well with:
"Less sophisticated developers would not have gone down this blind alley because they wouldn't have a clue that such a thing was even possible, let allow be able to figure out how to do it."
2. Intelligence has very little to do with the ability to think rationally. Rational thought is a skill that has to be studied and practiced. It's also crazy hard. Really really insanely hard. It's hardness is massively unappreciated. Intelligent people who think they have it down because they're better at it then most people are just fooling themselves. Most people haven't even tried to become good at it, so being better then them isn't that hard.
1. It helps to define your terms. My definitions, and what I think most people unconsciously mean, are that "smart" is all about making the best decisions and "intelligence" is all about pattern recognition. When you break it down like that it's obvious why "more intelligent" doesn't imply "smarter". The benefit of intelligence is that you can recognize patterns that other people don't, which can make you smarter. The downside is: the pattern might not be real, the pattern might not matter, analysis paralysis, etc. All of which can make you dumber. There's always a trade off. The post sums it up pretty well with:
"Less sophisticated developers would not have gone down this blind alley because they wouldn't have a clue that such a thing was even possible, let allow be able to figure out how to do it."
2. Intelligence has very little to do with the ability to think rationally. Rational thought is a skill that has to be studied and practiced. It's also crazy hard. Really really insanely hard. It's hardness is massively unappreciated. Intelligent people who think they have it down because they're better at it then most people are just fooling themselves. Most people haven't even tried to become good at it, so being better then them isn't that hard.