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Maybe Wil Shipley nailed the problem in his "On Being Crazy": http://blog.wilshipley.com/2005/05/on-being-crazy.html

So, is genius linked with craziness? Is this why we aren't all geniuses? Is mankind only so smart because if we get any smarter, we cease to function correctly? Maybe it's just not evolutionarily advantageous to be smarter than we are; it makes us mopey, and we end up cutting our ears off when we're trying to woo girls, which rarely results in offspring.



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