坚持与固执 / 天才与聪明
受到一篇PG文章的启发
我花了一周的时间思考为什么我如此厌恶知识分子。以下是两个表格，帮助我理清思路。如果你有更好的术语，请分享。
| # | 坚持 | 对比 | 固执 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 对问题不理性 | 对过程不理性 |
| 2 | 好奇且有动力 | 虔诚且有动力 |
| 3 | 创造性 | 纪律性 |
| 4 | 开放的个性 | 不堪重负的个性 |
| 5 | 难以坚持 | 容易坚持 |
| 6 | 精力充沛但不确定 | 精力充沛且确定 |
| 7 | 独立思考 | 从众容忍 |
| 8 | 攻击性 | 防御性 |
| # | 天真 | 对比 | 聪明 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 新颖 | 令人印象深刻 |
| 2 | 自我怀疑 | 自信 |
| 3 | 普遍 | 局部 |
| 4 | 奇怪 | 吸引人 |
| 5 | 痴迷 | 热情 |
| 6 | 独立 | 主导 |
| 7 | 简单 | 复杂 |
| 8 | 天真 | 精明 |
| 9 | 高度利他 | 低度利他 |
注释：
1. 我们不能在不有一点固执的情况下坚持，持久性有助于发现新领域（想法），但在保持这些领域方面却很糟糕。当我们失败时，那种最初的固执冲动就是阻止船只因持久创始人所允许的怀疑而崩溃的原因。
2. 天真的人类与好奇的孩子有更多的共同点，而不是聪明的教授，这解释了为什么大型语言模型在发现与生产力方面表现不佳。与人们的想法相反，真正的突破并不是来自聪明的人。通常，突破来自于学术界的外部人士，后来为了提升声望而成为内部人士（如马基雅维利、阿维森纳、爱因斯坦）。聪明的人不喜欢规则的改变，因为他们花费数十年掌握旧规则。
3. 聪明的人是天真孩子最好的盟友，不是因为他们相似，而是因为他们将天真的成功误认为天才。
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inspired by a PG essay<p>I spent a week thinking about why I hate intellectuals so much. Here are 2 tables that helped me navigate it. If you have better terminology for all of this, please share.<p>| # | Persistent | VS. | Stubborn |
| 1 | Irrational about Problem | Irrational about Process |
| 2 | Curious & Driven | Devout & Driven |
| 3 | Creative | Disciplined |
| 4 | Open Personality | Overwhelmed Personality |
| 5 | Hard to Keep Going | Easy to Stick to |
| 6 | Energetic but Uncertain | Energetic but Certain |
| 7 | Independent Minded | Herd Tolerance |
| 8 | Offensive | Defensive |<p>| # | Ingenuous | VS. | Intelligent |
| 1 | Novel | Impressive |
| 2 | Self Doubtful | Self Assured |
| 3 | Universal | Local |
| 4 | Weird | Attractive |
| 5 | Obsessive | Passionate |
| 6 | Independent | Dominant |
| 7 | Simplistic | Sophisticated |
| 8 | Naive | Shrewd |
| 9 | High Altruism | Low Altruism |<p>Notes:
1. We can't be persistence without being a little bit stubborn, persistence is good for discovering new territories (ideas) but very bad at keeping them. When we fail, that first impulse of stubbornness is what keeps the ship from collapsing from the doubt allowed by the openness of persistent founders.
2. Ingenuous humans have more in common with curious kids than smart professors, which explains why LLMs are not as good at discover vs. productivity. Opposed to what people think, real breakthroughs don't come from intelligent people. Usually, it's an outsider to academia made insider later to boost prestige (Machiavelli, Avicenna, Einstein). Intelligent people don't like it when the rules changes because they spend decades mastering the old rules.
3. Intelligent people are the best ally of ingenuous kids, not because they are similar but because they mistake ingenuous success as genius.