Psuedo-Intellectual nonsense "I had such a high IQ that they didn't give me the number in Elementary School, just looked in me in fear as they wrenched the IQ exam away before time was up after I invented division on the fly and started doing even higher math than that." - Delusional Boomer Gamedevcel Gives Up Looking For Job Despite Genius Level IQ

he attacked police and others while on a PCP binge

PCP, the drug of kings.

>windows

>the voice, coughing, combined with webcam color inversion

I've fulfilled my capacity for judgement on a programmer

Edit: I clicked on his other videos and realized I'm making fun of a full on r-slur

His only skill is pretending through typing he's a programmer nerd and not r-slurred

I bought it, and it's absolute kino

This dude was lucky to leave his mom's house, if he ever did

He's unironcally r-slurred

I hope one day we find out Bardfinn is barely able to form a coherent sentence on video and we've all been making fun of an neurodivergent r-slur who imitates humans enough to

someone in the cscareerquestions thread guessed that he puts his gaming achievements on his resume and that's why he never gets a callback and having seen his posts - there is a 100% chance that every gaming achievement that he mentioned in the post is also on his resume

He was here early on but then had a hissy fit and left when everyone called him a p-do

Isaac Newton notably invented gravity when he roasted a schoolmaster then dropped a microphone

I know of a few people that more-or-less self-derived a bunch of basic calculus while bored in earlier classes (or on their own after school). When you put smart people in a quiet room and give them a bunch of the basic building blocks, they tend to put them together. Usually it's a little annoying for them to learn the "correct" notation, which makes me wonder if, like programming languages, there's better and worse math languages and we've been railroaded into TI-BASIC instead of something good.

My own math exploits mostly ended incorrectly, also with "well, it doesn't work with numbers that end in 2 or 8" kind of complaints, and usually a lot of looping steps for what should ordinarily be a straightforward calculation. Iirc, at some point i did stuff that is now in common core, like "if i was trying to do this on some convenient number like 100, how much easier would that be, then just adjust backwards from that result."

Either way, figuring out division is the most believable part of this story, because it's like someone teaching themselves to read before the age of 3 without formal instruction. It really happens pretty commonly, or at least parental accounts of it abound.

And that's not even mentioning that hybrid cars were already entering the market in the 90s. The first Prius was unveiled in 1995 so there must have been people working on electric powertrains years before

Also golf carts were made electric a long time ago no? Seems logical someone would have extended the idea to a car.

(frick I rambled sorry)

this is a weird thing to think about, but basically everyone on any text heavy internet forum you encounter will be significantly above average.

there is unfortunately very little correlation between IQ and dumb opinions, but there are two good reasons to believe the internet forum thing:

• typing-like stuff has a decent correlation with IQ. there was one ancient study on WPM vs. IQ in the 1960s. I've had a surprisingly hard time finding lit on this since EVERY TEEN IN THE WORLD HAS A FRICKING PHONE but all measures of stuff adjacent to typing like APM have some modest IQ correlation. (also, if you've ever tested WPM for workplaces it's a shitshow.)

• reading speed has a decent correlation with IQ. once again, not a huge one but when you put a bunch of factors together it does some work.

so for as silly as you may think this drama board is, the comments are probably filtering for the top 10% of cognitive ability just because (1) if you read slowly you'll be turned off by this and (2) if you type slowly you won't want to comment.

I've polled a shitload of message boards and comment sections about this. it varies from 110-130, but who cares? when Bill Clinton's IQ is in the 110s pretty much any of us have sufficient brainpower to do some awesome shit and are just underusing our brains. (well, ok, we're on a drama forum where there are default gifs of a cat shaking its butt so some of that is true a priori.)

also: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ (the author uses "insane" in an unconventional way here, but they mean "extremely abnormal")

everyone involved in this comment sphere is not just exceptional but very exceptional in some way, even if that seems absurd because so many of us act like dumbasses.

but if you're reading this you probably are capable of a lot, maybe much more than you realize.

and yes I am 100% trying to keep this positive and motivational as compensation for the very dumb decision of letting myself be on my phone when the adderall hits and I have 10 unfinished projects. but I hope it actually was positive and/or motivational.

The purpose of the IQ test is to predict how likely you are to not frick up basic instructions like how to load an artillery shell.

edit: omg this comment is monstrous. I'm sorry in advance.

actually it's quite the opposite and IQ tests are so misunderstood that I intend to do a very long youtube video on this soon. much longer than this comment, which became a monster as it is.

while they may have ORIGINALLY been conceived to predict academic talent, much like how vodka can be alternatively used as a disinfectant or cleaner, the primary purpose of IQ tests today is measuring cognitive decline.

the reason we can know this is true without needing to consult someone is because IQ is designed for the general population, and is so expensive that you usually need health insurance to take it, and there are harder tests that would better predict life success.

for example

• the LSAT probably has a statistically higher ceiling than a WAIS IV even though perfect LSAT scores are less rare in the population of LSAT takers, because

• only college students who are planning to go to law school take it, and

• those college students will be on average sharper than the median college student, and

• college students as it is are sharper than the average person — if the whole of the US took the SAT, not just those intending to go to college, the average verbal score would be something like 350.

and likewise for other tests at a similar level.

but most organizations have found that developing their own flavor of test that's half IQ and half something else is more predictive. (this is essentially what the current military testing is.)

so, most IQ testing was done by proxy because the SAT and military tests used to be extremely similar to IQ tests. the military diverged in 1980 and the SAT in 1994.

now, yes, a lot of rich parents still use the WISC to get their child into some gifted program.

but the WAIS — the adult IQ test — is, in my experience, overwhelmingly a medical tool at this point, even if at one point it was used for something else.

I knew a person who gave out IQ tests for a living and have met several people with a similar role. the overwhelming majority of their testing was for cognitive decline.

since health insurance isn't going to cover an IQ test that ranges from $250 to nearly $2000 if it's not medically useful — and it's often part of a package — the test designers are going to focus on that aspect. I would not even be surprised if the ceiling for the WAIS was reduced in the future or if some parts were removed just to make it cheaper.

IQ is a pretty terrible predictor of most metrics of success, especially workplace. Parental income is usually much stronger.

I believe people above a certain IQ tend to be less successful and happy than someone with an average IQ.

IQ just tests pattern recognition. Some guy with an IQ of 90 will be happy working in a factory because mastering the basic pattern of chopping lettuce heads or whatever will be a challenge for him and keep him engaged. A guy with 130+ will be bored doing most things and is more likely to quit steady jobs, job hop, or struggle to find a fulfilling career.