slutbunwaller comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: slutbunwaller 16 October 2014 02:18:24PM 1 point [-]

If you don't have any open questions in that category, then you aren't really living as an intellectual.

I'm not sure that's a critical part of any definition of the word "intellectual".

Comment author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 03:38:00PM 1 point [-]

It's not sufficient to be an intellectual but if you don't care about questions that aren't solved in short amounts of time because that's very uncomfortable for you, you won't have a deep understanding of anything. You might memorise the teacher password in many domains but that's not what being an intellectual is about.