I don't like Mensa though, always has this masturbatory air to it. I feel like such cases of young prodigies don't need Mensa, but some legitimate means of finding good mentors and nurturing environments who'd keep bad bros and pseudo-intellectual cultures at bay.
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Agreed. Never liked them at all. When they came looking for new members, my spouse and I both took their test and then refused the membership, just to silence a particularly obnoxious member at work. It worked though - took the wind right out of his sails!
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Good on you! Big headed people can do with some deflating their ballooning heads every now and then
I never knew how bad intellectual arrogance can get until I met an econ student from Yale on a holiday... Oh and when social media and comment sections became widespread 
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Indeed. It can drive a person batty! Office Mensa guy had taken to going around with a *pipe* stuck in his mouth, for heaven's sake, and basically just refused to think he could be wrong about anything ever again. Ooh, he ticked me off!
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In a post scarcity future I'll set up "volunteer Socrates" groups, which can be called in to shake people's misplaced intellectual arrogance. Some act out a distorted idea of what an intelligent person looks like, rather than be it by questioning it.https://youtu.be/VZ2ue2zA2ck
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