Sniffnoy comments on Rationality is about pattern recognition, not reasoning - Less Wrong
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The distinction that I'm drawing is that intelligence is about the capacity to recognize patterns whereas aesthetic discernment is about selectively being drawn toward patterns that are important. I believe that intelligence explains a large fraction of the variance in mathematicians' productivity. See my post Innate Mathematical Ability. But I think that the percent of variance that intelligence explains is less than 50%.
Ah, I see. I forgot about that, thanks!