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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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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You're making it sound like Mensa is a bunch of people in a room, celebrating how great it is to be smart.
(Not a Mensan nor have I ever been but) that is not how *they* see themselves at all. They seem to celebrate curiosity, knowledge, diverse expertise. From their website:
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My point is using IQ as the first gate is the problematic part. That doesn’t preclude special interests within.
Ie there’s a difference between a Mensa chess group and a regular chess group
There’s a difference between a billionaire poker group and regular
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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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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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[Interesting, slightly contrarian + orthogonal response that signals me as smart, superior yet somehow not-smug]
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