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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana May 22
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      terman’s termites is probably the biggest one for that? but lots of criticism as to how much its dubious findings generalize, of which cases there are of course many such

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    3. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana May 22
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      there is DEFINITELY the possibility that extremely high intelligence people are fucked up, and that it’s hard to prove because there are so few of them, but I haven’t seen anything really convincing one way or the other

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 22
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      Startlingly little research seems to have been done on very smart people. I sometimes wonder why. Maybe prospective researchers suspect outcomes would be too uncomfortable and it’s de facto taboo

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    5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen May 22
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      By definition, there's not a lot, and presumably many would rather do something else with their time. "Wanted: 180 IQ individuals to answer boring questionnaires, $20 / hour" is not a compelling pitch.

      2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 22
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      Well I would think very high IQ people would be curious enough about the subject to be willing to contribute? Although I find myself peculiarly incurious. (IQ nowhere near 180 but still in the rare zone)

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    7. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana May 22
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      I like the idea of both animal & human research where part of your job is to make the experiment entertaining enough that subjects flock to participate

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    8. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen May 22
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      May as well qualify: of course, there has been a tremendous amount of serious-in-aspiration work on this kind of thing (gosh, Terman did it...), but I suspect little of it is what David would consider serious? [My own proposal was tongue-in-cheek, of course.]

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 22
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @literalbanana and

      Terman’s study is the best thing I know of. I’m not faulting it (although one could probably do better now). Is there a tremendous amount more like that?

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    10. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen May 22
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      I've come across at least a half dozen over the years (& not through searching). One was: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/  Another was some of Howard Gardner's books.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 24
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      Thanks again for this… addressing the original question, I see the SMPY people said in 2016 that they were about to do a life satisfaction survey on the top 0.01% cohort. But they haven’t published that (yet).

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