A corollary of this is that telling the truth as you see it without a great deal of forethought and deliberation is, uh, kind of stupid. t.co/1WeBLtnG4Z
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Oh, I am speaking pragmatically here.
All I'm saying, is that stating what you consider to be true and expecting anyone to give a fuck is a net negative strategy.
Bit of standing on the shoulders of giants, there. I have good teachers in the futility of the clean argument.
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Bit of malicious self-indulgence here, just for you:
A considerable part of my misspent youth was invested in learning about psychometrics. Far as IQ is concerned, the direct outside of where I fall on the curve may as well be marked "this way lies madness."
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Being simultaneously able to communicate with the inhabitants of that territory, and more or less able to abide normies has been... educational.
Pretty solid reasons both why truth is not a strategy, and why IQ isn't as much of a benefit as some rationalist thugs want it to be.