There is something bizarre about “high-IQ” as an identity core like with Mensa. Like a trade union of capitalists or a commune of libertarians. Or that South Park joke about the anti-semitic sect of Judaism. Shouldn’t you be winning Nobels, rather than performing identity?
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Not the same thing, but one is arguably the precondition for the other.
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no, you can be super effective if you're highly pedagogically compliant & either have good intuition for who to be pedagogically compliant to or are lucky in developing in an environment full of well-curated institutional knowledge so you can be pedagogically compliant to anybody
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the clever fucker who has to do everything their own way will probably come up with two or three superior strategies in a lifetime. the conformist fucker who does exactly what a well-developed culture tells them has access to hundreds of superior strategies.
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this is the most crippling thing about growing up as a smart kid in a cultural backwater: it teaches you that listening to other people is a mistake, and that stays with you after you get out of the backwater
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