I think his feed in general is interesting, not just the bit about the philosophy of stupidity. I bet he's an excellent professor. Digestible little philosophy tidbits.
>>I am not exactly sure how IQ plays into this.
That's an interesting question. Can you be high-IQ and still be stupid?
I've seen mentions here and there with respect to QAnon, Covid vaccines and so on and how susceptibility relates to "intelligence" (whatever that means). I don't think "high IQ" and "smart" should be treated as synonyms like many popular press articles do, but whatever. Here goes...
Why smart people are more likely to believe fake newsResearch shows that smart people are more susceptible to fake news and conspiracy theories – but why?To make matters worse, more educated participants also seemed less likely to update their beliefs after they had been debunked; instead, they actually became more certain they were right. Somehow, their greater knowledge simply allowed them to dismiss the new information and harden their attitudes... For any issue that strikes at the core of who we are, greater brainpower may simply serve to preserve that identity at the expense of the truth.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/01/why-smart-people-are-more-likely-to-believe-fake-newsHigh-IQ also seem prone to apophenia - the tendency to see patterns in random events. It's interesting how belief precedes evidence. I recently learned when that football player got hit and collapsed, that every time a young athlete dies, there is a group of people who counts this as a death due to the Covid vaccine, even though in most cases they don't know whether or not the athlete was even vaccinated, let alone that the death was related.
This is the article that taught me the word apophenia and opened my eyes on this topic. I posted it here a long time ago, but it is worth a read:
https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5It seems that you need not just good reasoning skills, but also a belief in their importance matters. One indicator is how you rank on the Importance of Rationality Scale which asks people to rank from 1-7 their opinion on questions like, “It is important to me personally to be skeptical about claims that are not backed up by evidence.” People who have good reasoning skills and a high IRS score are unlikely to
accept conspiracy theories be stupid.
https://time.com/5023383/conspiracy-theories-reasons-believe/https://psychcentral.com/health/apophenia-overviewAll that to say that I'm pretty sure that very high-IQ people can be and often are stupid in Bonhoeffer's understanding of that word, especially if preserving a sense of their identity is aided by being "stupid."
