as someone who has never taken a proper IQ test but definitely scored obscenely high on cognitive tests I took as a kid, part of me is honestly flabbergasted that society has *allowed* me to waste my life, and that by all accounts most "IQ realists" would continue to let me do so
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I should be chained to a computer solving equations somewhere
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Not the same thing, but one is arguably the precondition for the other.
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do you think people who win Nobels don't perform identity? i mean really i think high IQ societies are just for people who haven't figured out signaling yet
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It’s not their primary uh, use of their high IQ brains though
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Going to a bunch of cocktail parties after winning a Nobel would be "performing identity." (I think "investing in signaling rather than production" might be a good rhetorical tweak).
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1) The IQ required to join Mensa is not that much higher than the average everyday doctor or lawyer so I think you’re asking a little much. 2) People with high IQ do not owe the world their intellectual labor any more than, say, women owe men their emotional labor.
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3) Isn’t there enough unhappiness in the world without you mocking one of the few organizations that offer some people othered by their mental traits any sense of community? 4) Why are you wasting your time virtue-signalling your well-adjusted egalitarianism? In other words...
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