Francis Galton made key insights that drove the development of statistics. He also invented eugenics and had a lot of deeply racist beliefs.

Richard Feynman was a frickin' genius in like 5 different fields. He was also a bit coercive/rapey in his treatment of women.

LIzzo is an amazing artist and... yeah, Lizzo.

Don't we all know (or maybe embody) someone who is not particularly brilliant but is a good person?

And there people who have skills and knowledge galore as well as (probably) being basically good people, like Neyman, Hedy Lamar, Weird Al, Jonas Salk.

My point: Morality and expertise are not related. As a culture we have a very hard time remembering that, even though we almost always agree when it's pointed out.

TL;DR: Four cells of two independent effects:
- Good person, unskilled
- Good person, skilled
- Bad person, unskilled
- Bad person, skilled

#good #bad #skill #tech #knowledge #intelligence #morality #correlation #illusory #bias #thinkingishard

You ever write or type out a word, look at it, and think "that can't be right?".

Then you look it up and realize you can indeed spell, and English is just weird as fuck?

#ThinkingIsHard #NeedMoreCoffee