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I am considering a Feynman detector for bullshit (as defined in the article): See if you can come up with a specific example that the sentence describes. If you can a point to a specific example which works, the sentence is not bullshit.

Feynman famously used this technique to understand and quickly find flaws in complex mathematical theories - he followed a specific example along.

Anyway, back to the article; I am not clear, maybe both seeing through bullshit and being pro-social are correlated to general intelligence?




The test you describe is basically also a (recipe for an) integration test.




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