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It reminds me of this article I read sometime ago: "Why smart people are better off with fewer friends"(1) The gist being "For more intelligent people, (social

• brigandish 6y ago
  It's an interesting article but what seemed missing to me, as to the theory of why this would be, was any mention of money. That thing that correlates with IQ quite well. Instead, there's a whiff of heroism in their description of higher IQ individuals, which would be convenient for a couple of intellectuals: > More intelligent individuals, who possess higher levels of general intelligence and thus greater ability to solve evolutionarily novel problems, may face less difficulty in comprehending and dealing with evolutionarily novel entities and situations It seems they'd be amazed at how many "evolutionarily novel problems" can be solved simply by having more cash.