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He must think smart people are too smart to think. I'm reminded of the movie Limitless and how poor, less smart, people are at writing about smarter people. Spoiler: In the movie the protagonist takes out a loan from a loan shark so that he can make more money with his new found cognitive powers, but forgets to pay it back, even though he's both rich and more intelligent. The writer doesn't seem to have copped that the character would have increased thinking capacity. Wash rinse repeat for most sci-fi movies unfortunately. Likewise this article seems to make the assumption that smart people don't think about socialising. Btw is that mind projection fallacy?
Are you thinking of normal psychological projection? I don't see anything very mind-projectiony about this.
I think that might be cut-and-dry stereotyping.
The article or what I said?
Sorry, I've been having a real big problem with specificity lately. I blame it on facebook.
You asked whether it might be mind-projection fallacy that caused him to assume that smart people are socially awkward. The article looks like it is being stereotypical rather than fallacious in some other way.
Of course I might just be projecting, here. :) I do consider myself to be smart, and I definitely try not to think much about socializing. Not that it's done me much good. I end up thinking about it anyway because that's the rational thing to do.
Yes stereo typing sounds more like it.
The loan shark business seemed forced. Given the success he already had he just didn't need a loan from a loan shark. The loan shark didn't even give him that much cash. He couldn't have earned way, way more money than that in the time it took to round him up. At least, I could with that kind of intelligence boost.
That was my point.
Friendly neighborhood inferential distance surveyor: it sounded like your point was about forgetfulness, not taking the loan in the first place. In general, when you say "A, then B, even though C", it sounds like A is context-setting and B is what C should have prevented (as opposed to "C should have prevented A and B"). Except when it doesn't.
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