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Newton established that the laws governing the motion of the heavenly bodies are the same that apply on the earth. No kidding everyone was able to see that things fall down. Aristotle, smarter than both of us put together, thought it was because rocks are earthly things that are naturally attracted by the earth, while fire is a heavenly thing that is attracted by the heavenly being (or something like that).
Gravity is not things falling down, and it is by no means obvious. Because I hope you're not arrogant enough to think that you are smarter than Newton.
Correct.
Data does not make you smart though. That is knowledge. You may have more knowledge, but St. Thomas Aquinas was definitely smarter.
LOL. I am surprised that you know about that. Because in all honesty, I thought that the Georgian war was aggression on Russia's part until two years ago or so. Why?
Cause you have to be a retard to be Georgia and attack Russia. No one can be that stupid, I thought.
To be fair, US 'intelligence' is anything but.
In retrospect, it seems inevitable. But at the time, I didn't believe it either.
Eh, while you take it way too far, you do make a good case for it. I'm just paranoid about mobilization given what happened in 1914.
According to your 'intelligence' agencies, it does not want nukes.
But fair enough. However, I do think that saying that you want nukes is a casus belli.
Just because Aristotle was smart at 1 thing, doesn't mean he was smart at everything. Elon Musk is smart in some areas and a retard in others. Kanye West is a genius musician but a retard otherwise. It's the norm for a "very smart" person to have huge blind spots where they are retarded, and this effect gets exaggerated at the highest levels of success, because generally super successful people are "I min maxed to be super good at 1 thing and shit otherwise".
To me, it is common sense that gravity is based on mass, and mass is based on density. One thing is heavier than another because it has more "stuff" in it, it's denser. So it would be common sense that gravity is based on attraction between mass. I don't assume I'm smarter or dumber than anyone else. I've met very few people in my life smarter than me in any area, and none were broadly smarter than I am across a lot of areas. People confuse "being well prepared" and "being knowledgeable" for intelligence. Nah. Intelligence is raw processing power and intellectual performance specs. It's only 1 factor in being correct, and it usually helps you get to the right answer FASTER, all else being equal.
But one of the things I've learned through my development of knowledge and intelligence is that ultimately, being consistently correct is far more important than being faster. It's very rare that speed matters. It's very common that being a mental speed demon who fucks up 5% of the time because of mental corner cutting (which is how I used to be) will fuck you in the ass.
A lot of people hate me and react in a very hostile way to me because I care so much about "being right" so I constantly call people out on their wrongness, and it really nut punches their egos and makes them lash out. It's really obnoxious behavior from them. I don't care, though. I'd rather be consistently right than to be popular and make friends with idiots. I don't even rub it in people's faces or do it on purpose.
Again, you have no idea. My IQ might be higher than his. Just because he came up with classic ideas that stood the test of time doesn't mean his brain was high performance. You can be of mediocre mental intelligence and yet end up being a great thinker because your PROCESS yields superior results. You can have fantastic mental abilities like THIS GUY and yet amount to nothing in life.
Idk how you could go back and forth with me all this time and not know that I know a shitload of stuff.
It WAS aggression on Russia's part. Putin set an obvious trap and that dumbass Saakashvili fell for it. Russia had JUST moved all its forces into place near the border under the pretext of "exercises". The US and Georgia KNEW that Russia had moved all their forces into place and were just over the border. They did their own exercise in response. Georgia knew that the Russians didn't go home weeks after the exercise was over: "Russian troops stayed near the border with Georgia after the end of their exercise on 2 August, instead of going back to their barracks.[110] Later, Dale Herspring, an expert on Russian military affairs at Kansas State University, described the Russian exercise as "exactly what they executed in Georgia just a few weeks later [...] a complete dress rehearsal.""
Just like that dumbass Zelenskyy, Saakashvili was arrogant and didn't think Russia would attack. He thought America "had his back" even though the US had no logistical means to give him significant help in the Caucuses, and no political will to give a shit about him.
So when "South Ossetian separatists began intensively shelling Georgian villages on 1 August." everyone and their mother should have known "this is a trap, the Russians are just on the other side of the Roki Tunnel just waiting for the signal to pounce, they told their proxies to stir shit up and provoke a response in order to get a pretext to invade." The smart thing to do would have been to go on high alert, prepare to resist invasion by bringing up reinforcements, and to stay totally passive to deny the Russians their excuse to invade. Even if Russia went in anyway, staying purely defensive and playing the victim is simply the "correct" and winning answer in terms of the international response. Putin is keenly attuned to the international response, and would likely have not gone in or backed down sooner if the world viewed the conflict as pure Russian bullying, as opposed to Russia riding to the rescue of the poor victim Ossetians.
But no, Saakashvili had huffed too much paint and ordered a futile attack to seal the Roki tunnel after it was too late and multiple waves of Russians had already come through. Georgia did not attack Russia, it attacked its own territory occupied by separatists.
The United States is cursed with shitty "friends".
Dude... Aristotle was smart at nearly everything. But my point was that it is by no means obvious that the same laws of motion apply in the heavens as on earth. It did take the genius of a Newton to figure that out. Of course, in retrospect, it seems obvious.
No one thought of this before Newton though. It's not exactly common sense if it is not common.
Correct, but earlier, you were telling me that modern people are smarter than people in the past because they have more 'data'. That was wrong, and you are correct here instead.
Intelligence is not just speed though. It aids in speed, but things like reasoning are much more important.
Sauvants generally do not have high general intelligence (g, or IQ). But you do need at least a way above average IQ to come up with great ideas. Anyone can be an NPC and regurgitate the ideas he hears from other people. To think different is the skill.
Because I thought you would conveniently not know something because it is to your disadvantage to know. And because it makes sense that a greater power would attack a weaker one, not vice versa.
Correct. It's a shame that Putin lost his Midas touch and thought that was would be equally effective without a casus belli. Not sure if the element of surprise, such that it was, was worth it.
According to the US. The US also recognizes Kosovo as independent, even though it's Serbia's own territory as I believe you and I both agree.
I wish we would be independent instead of lackeys of the US.
People much earlier than Newton argued that gravity was based on mass, it's just that Newton came up with the equations for it.
Modern people are also smarter, there has been a large increase in overall IQ over time in societies that industrialized and got richer.
Reasoning is learned. Anyone can learn to reason.
Putin had 14 additional years in a system of government he created to breed yes-men of questionable competence between 2008-2022. He had done such a good job consolidating power in Russia that he had grown complacent and overconfident. He was getting poor advice telling him what he wanted to hear from everyone except Sergey Naryshkin, who he humiliated in public shortly before invading.
Nations do not become "lackeys" of the US out of fear, respect, or ideology. They do so - using your definition - purely out of a selfish desire to freeload off of the American taxpayer so they can cut military spending and funnel it into social welfare programs in order to buy votes. They do this because they have no fear that the US will take advantage of the situation by imposing its will on them.