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I think that reveals your cynicism more than it provides any useful insight about intelligence.

No, it reveals that he is older than you. Not every insight needs to be useful.

> Not every insight needs to be useful.

Don’t they still need to be correct to be an insight? I don’t share his cynical opinion that “humans are more empty than we…think we are”.

If it helps I intended “empty” in a positive Zen sort of way, not as in an abyss. The humanness is in the listener, not the inner talker.