Is Sas cleverer than you?

[SimonMac]

Thta's not very clever is it.

[sasguru]

It might not be a clever thing to do but you asked if there is a reason why a clever person might choose poverty over wealth.

Clever is as clever does, no? I don't believe in too much abstraction. Perhaps I am intelligent rather clever.

[sasguru]

Pointing out typos is certainly not clever. I hope you didn't lie and voted correctly.

[EternalOptimist]

Clever is as clever does, no? I don't believe in too much abstraction. Perhaps I am intelligent rather clever.

clever is being able to use intelligence to achieve something.

some of the most intelligent people you will ever meet live in cardboard boxes or skips. it's not very clever though

[Mich the Tester]

Clever is as clever does, no? I don't believe in too much abstraction. Perhaps I am intelligent rather clever.

I don't know; I know that if you were to suggest to me to forego a comfortable financial situation for the sake of an ascetic ideal, my answer would be 'you first, I'll stay here with my burgundy and think about it', but I think that an intelligent person might reach some point, through need or choice, of accepting and even finding ways of enjoying life in poverty', and then choose to remain in that situation as it's where he feels comfortable. You say you are 'quite ascetic'; in a way, I recognise that; I don't have great material desires, when training I like to keep it basic, or even spartan without shiny new apparatus and kit, and with a feeling that I haven't trained properly if I don't feel some pain from it. I like a cold shower sometimes, and can enjoy going out running or cycling at sub zero temperatures. But I don't see these choices as being truly ascetic; there's some degree of temperance and minimalism involved, but I know I can always go back to a warm house, I'm not obliged to train; I can choose to sit in a warm room watching TV, and that choice makes it a very easy form of asceticism. I can imagine some intelligent person actually making the choice, out of ideals or philosophical conviction or maybe political aims, to give up the right to that choice. As I say, not for me, but yes, an intelligent person can choose poverty over wealth.

[nomadd]

Perhaps I am intelligent rather clever.

Shouldn't that be "...rather than clever."

Unless it was a Yoda quote.

[OwlHoot]

In your opinion, is sas cleverer than you? (If you are sasguru, you'll need to go for the AndyW option)

Poll to follow.

A fly is cleverer than me at finding tulip. But that doesn't mean much, except to the fly

[eek]

A fly is cleverer than me at finding tulip. But that doesn't mean much, except to the fly

If you're talking dog tulip I seem to only ever find it when not looking where I'm going.

[doodab]

So you're suggesting that, paradoxically, those who are cleverer than you are thicker than those who aren't.

Or intelligence is multifaceted. A bit like top trumps.

[speling bee]

Most posters on CUK are dimmer than average. Sas probably has a healthy IQ of about 115. Most CUK posters are therefore probably dimmer than Sas, if we are happy to run with IQ as a measure of cleverness. However, many of these poster are dim enough that they probably lack the ability to tell that they are dimmer than Sas, so the results of the poll will be interesting.