Intelligent, clever, or wise

There are three bits to think about.

  • Intelligence
  • Cleverness
  • Wisdom.

Intelligence        is the ability to review a data set, deduce an underlying algorithm and use the algorithm to reveal a new point on the data set.

Cleverness        is the ability to review a data  set, deduce an underlying algorithm and then manipulate it to show that a desired new point belongs to the data set. Thus getting your own way.

Wisdom            is using experience of data and algorithms already encountered to detect when cleverness has been deployed to skew the data set.

A conjuring trick is cleverness. Watching intelligence knows the algorithm should  not lead to a rabbit appearing from an empty top hat.

Wisdom has seen this type of trick before and knows the strategy that was used in the cleverness.

Wisdom watches the three-card trick and knows that repeated outcomes in favour of the dealer are contrary to the algorithm for repeated throws. Knows the strategy is one of several cheats.

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