“If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel of sewage, you have sewage.

If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel of wine, you have sewage…”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The same is true of knowledge, opinion, and intelligence…

tiny features matter. Start from the wrong position? Garbage results. Emphasize the wrong perspective? Same problem. The tightrope of intelligence is not impossible to traverse, but it requires awareness of the challenges, their complexity, and how to relate with them in an ongoing way that produces reliably valid results.