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I don't think it's too cynical overall.

I can't recall the quote verbatim, but somewhere in "The Glass Bead Game" a great teacher says that it's difficult to work with intelligence--you have to be lucky to identify it and then the best you can do is get out of its way. Stupidity, on the other hand is easy to identify and easy to correct on a case-by-case basis.

There's value in inverting a problem like you've done in the article. It might not be symmetrical. Things that might not have been obvious in the original become obvious in the inversion.



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