“Elon Musk and spiky intelligence” – Nate Silver

There may even be trade-offs between certain types of intelligence: Simon Baron-Cohen and other researchers, for instance, have postulated that there’s an inverse correlation between systematizing and empathizing: people tend either to be interested in abstract ideas or interested in other people, but not so often both.

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