On intelligence

Knowledge is knowing your discarded toenails contain keratin, which in turn, contains nitrogen. And that your living room plants need nitrogen.

Wisdom is not putting your toenails in the plant pot.

Intelligence is making the leap from knowledge to wisdom. Or rather, it’s having the sensibility to put the toenails there, but having the wisdom to bury them deep in the pot, so people don’t see what you did. And intelligence is still not doing this in front of your friends, or talk about this in front of your friends. Maybe intelligence is hard-to-define, but it for sure entails the skill to not talk about this publicly. “Intelligence is what AI is not able to do,” they say ... but even AI will tell you to not talk about your toenails in your flower pot, so ... on a second thought, if you have hippie friends they might see what you do as resourceful, and it might be genuinely status increasing and inspiring that you put your toenails into flower pots. Ah well, this isn’t the neat conclusion I wanted to reach. Probably intelligence is heavily context dependent, and path dependent. And dependent on if you actually put your toenails into that pot or not, and if you behaved wisely while doing it. I guess intelligence is more of a verb?