"You would think that, and yet, prediction markets were running at only 20% that she was secretly trolling us the whole time."
"There's this weird adorableness factor about it - that I'm not sure I can describe, but will try to describe anyways - Merrin is also famous for having, in your terms, it would be INT 16, I think, or even 15, and yet reaching the top of her profession. Usually when that happens you just sort of shrug and say that obviously the tests just failed at measuring how much real mental power she has, but the fact that she also has this one really weird hangup - proves she actually is somebody who started out non-brilliant and just succeeded anyways by working incredibly hard for incredibly long? It makes her - simultaneously an ultra-high-achieving role model who's much more famous than you are, and also, somebody who's committing this very large strange cognitive error where you know better than her about it. Which is not usually something you can say about a major public figure, you would not usually expect to be in a position where you would ever know about a cognitive error a public figure was committing, because they'd already have advisors much much smarter than you. But if you screw Merrin, you're not, like, just being some strictly vastly inferior being that she's allowed into her cuddleroom. There is at least one topic you could totally win an argument with her about, as judged by impartial judges. But you must never ever mention it in front of her."
"You would think that, and yet, prediction markets were running at only 20% that she was secretly trolling us the whole time."
"There's this weird adorableness factor about it - that I'm not sure I can describe, but will try to describe anyways - Merrin is also famous for having, in your terms, it would be INT 16, I think, or even 15, and yet reaching the top of her profession. Usually when that happens you just sort of shrug and say that obviously the tests just failed at measuring how much real mental power she has, but the fact that she also has this one really weird hangup - proves she actually is somebody who started out non-brilliant and just succeeded anyways by working incredibly hard for incredibly long? It makes her - simultaneously an ultra-high-achieving role model who's much more famous than you are, and also, somebody who's committing this very large strange cognitive error where you know better than her about it. Which is not usually something you can say about a major public figure, you would not usually expect to be in a position where you would ever know about a cognitive error a public figure was committing, because they'd already have advisors much much smarter than you. But if you screw Merrin, you're not, like, just being some strictly vastly inferior being that she's allowed into her cuddleroom. There is at least one topic you could totally win an argument with her about, as judged by impartial judges: namely, is she in fact a fairly ordinary person really. But you must never ever mention it in front of her."
"You would think that, and yet, prediction markets were running at only 20% that she was secretly trolling us the whole time."
"There's this weird adorableness factor about it - that I'm not sure I can describe, but will try to describe anyways - Merrin is also famous for having, in your terms, it would be INT 16, I think, or even 15, and yet reaching the top of her profession. Usually when that happens you just sort of shrug and say that obviously the tests just failed at measuring how much real mental power she has, but the fact that she also has this one really weird hangup - proves she actually is somebody who started out non-brilliant and just succeeded anyways by working incredibly hard for incredibly long? It makes her - simultaneously an ultra-high-achieving role model who's much more famous than you are, and also, somebody who's committing this very large strange cognitive error where you know better than her about it. Which is not usually something you can say about a major public figure, you would not usually expect to be in a position where you would ever know about a cognitive error a public figure was committing, because they'd already have advisors much much smarter than you. But if you screw Merrin, you're not, like, just some strictly vastly inferior being that she's allowed into her cuddleroom. There is at least one topic you could totally win an argument with her about, as judged by impartial judges: namely, is she in fact a fairly ordinary person really. But you must never ever mention it in front of her."
"You would think that, and yet, prediction markets were running at only 20% that she was secretly trolling us the whole time."
"There's this weird adorableness factor about it - that I'm not sure I can describe, but will try to describe anyways - Merrin is also famous for having, in your terms, it would be INT 16, I think, or even 15, and yet reaching the top of her profession. Usually when that happens you just sort of shrug and say that obviously the tests just failed at measuring how much real mental power she has, but the fact that she also has this one really weird hangup - proves she actually is somebody who started out non-brilliant and just succeeded anyways by working incredibly hard for incredibly long? It makes her - simultaneously an ultra-high-achieving role model who's much more famous than you are, and also, somebody who's committing this very large cognitive error where you know better than her about it. Which is not usually something you can say about a major public figure, you would not usually expect to be in a position where you would ever know about a cognitive error a public figure was committing, because they'd already have advisors much much smarter than you. But if you screw Merrin, you're not, like, just some strictly vastly inferior being that she's allowed into her cuddleroom. There is at least one topic you could totally win an argument with her about, as judged by impartial judges: namely, is she in fact a fairly ordinary person really. But you must never ever mention it in front of her."
"You would think that, and yet, prediction markets were running at only 20% that she was secretly trolling us the whole time."
"There's this weird adorableness factor about it - that I'm not sure I can describe, but will try to describe anyways - Merrin is also famous for having, in your terms, it would be INT 16, I think, or even 15, and yet reaching the top of her profession. Usually when that happens you just sort of shrug and say that obviously the tests just failed at measuring how much real mental power she has, but the fact that she also has this one really weird hangup - proves she actually is somebody who started out non-brilliant and just succeeded anyways by working incredibly hard for incredibly long? It makes her - simultaneously an ultra-high-achieving role model who's much more famous than you are, and also, somebody who's committing this very large cognitive error where you know better than her about it. Which is not usually something you can say about a major public figure, you would not usually expect to be in a position where you would ever know about a cognitive error a public figure was committing, because they'd already have advisors much much smarter than you. But if you screw Merrin, you're not, like, just some strictly vastly inferior being that she's allowed into her cuddleroom. There is at least one topic you could totally win an argument with her about, as judged by impartial judges: namely, is she in fact a fairly ordinary person really. But you must never ever mention it in front of her. It makes you want to just whap her on the head with a banana until she stops being humble.”
