Sklansky's Handicap

[madnak]

This is a response to Sklansky's series of threads in which he basically says that if someone is smarter than you, you should agree with what they say. Okay, that's a slight oversimplification, but you get the idea.

So my question to you, David, is this - if someone who scores well above you on the metrics you're referring to were to come into the debate and disagree with you, that is, if one of the "great minds" you like to mention were to post and tell you that no, smart people are wrong a whole hell of a lot, would you abandon this line of reasoning?

I'm assuming someone who is more knowledgeable than you, who is smarter than you, and who is biased against his own position (as he will generally be, given that your position is that he's some great ubermensch). According to your standards, such a person would be incalculably more likely than you to be right about the subject. Therefore, if he were to dispute your position, you would have to abandon it. Correct?

I believe it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for the members of SMP to find such an "anti-Sklansky" with a distinguished record and stratospheric IQ score...