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In psychology there are at least two biases that drive this pattern. One is confirmation bias:23 seeing what we expect to see. The other is desirability bias:24 seeing what we want to see. These biases don’t just prevent us from applying our intelligence. They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Why smart people often do stupid things: Intelligence isn't a substitute for wisdom.
Intelligence is the capacity to learn.
Wisdom is converting learning into good judgment.
Using brainpower requires willpower. It takes self-control to choose future gains over current impulses.
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme
... See moreErik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
But a human brain is a flawed lens that can understand its own flaws—its systematic errors, its biases—and apply second-order corrections to them.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
most of the time systems end up dumber than the people in them due to multiple layers of terrible incentives,
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Inadequate Equilibria
At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.