Comment by jfengel
The problem with "smart" is that they fail at things that dumb people succeed at. They have ludicrous levels of knowledge and a jaw dropping ability to connect pieces while missing what's right in front of them.
The gap makes me uncomfortable with the implications of the word "smart". It is orthogonal to that.
>they fail at things that dumb people succeed at
Funnily enough, you can also observe that in humans. The number of times I have observed people from highly intellectual, high income/academic families struggle with simple tasks that even the dumbest people do with ease is staggering. If you're not trained for something and suddenly confronted with it for the first time, you will also in all likelihood fail. "Smart" is just as ill-defined as any other clumsy approach to define intelligence.