there are multiple kinds of intelligence(s), and the conversations around intelligence are so exhaustingly, boringly focused on procedural/spatial “IQ” type intelligence… 🤔

— Visa is fixing the typos in his ebook (@visakanv) March 15, 2020

Howard Gardner’s theory of “multiple intelligences” does not hold up well, but that’s mainly because it’s still operating too much on the scientific-rationalist isolation of variables environment, and the world just does not function that way at all. So I mostly agree with Visa here.

For instance, I have a very high-resolution bullshit detector. I don’t mean lying, necessarily — that’s different. But the reason I knew roughly what was going to happen with Covid-19 is because of my intelligence in that area and my ability to just see through BS without much effort. How exactly do you measure that? It only works in a real-world scenario, but it works quite reliably.

Science will always miss just huge areas of human endeavor and capacity. There’s no way around that.