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That's even worse. Journalists are infamous for writing articles and having opinions on things they know nothing about.

To produce plausible sounding statements on a complex topics without regard to their actual truth is almost a necessity for the opinion journalist (the predominant type of journalist of the modern era).

To be criticized for intellectual hubris by that class should be meaningless.

>>userna+(OP)
That wasn't an appeal to authority (as embodied, I guess, by journalists). I wanted to introduce the idea, without claiming it to be some novel insight of mine.

>>thomas+w1
Well, on its own merits, the idea hits the same mathematical problem. If tech enterprises are even slightly selective it wouldn't be difficult for tech people to be smarter than most.

Smarter than most isn't an exclusive club. It's a massive class.

>>userna+K3
Yes, that is the spirit I intended to get across with the original comment.

I really wanted to avoid leaving the reader with any impression that I think (1) intelligence is easy to quantify, and (2) HN readers are some kind of nietzschean elite who have all the answers.