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I read all 8 of those paragraphs, assuming it was related to the original post.

turtleyacht 3y ago
I too read all of it. Sometimes it's the journey of reminiscence. It could activate a graph of neuronal memory as we relate to it. Maybe how an event smelled, or the kind of fluorescent lighting in the rooms. Or the sounds of walking on pavement and speaking to strangers. Briefly, the urban space becomes a domed chat space.
- syndicatedjelly 3y ago
  Was this written by an AI or something?
  - turtleyacht 3y ago
    No, 100% a musing brought on by parent and your reply :)
PaulHoule 3y ago
If your S.Q. (Schizotypy Quotient) was higher you'd see how it's related. One of my most obnoxious symptoms is that people are always telling me they don't see the connections in what I say. Sometimes they are right but sometimes they are terribly, terribly wrong. Faced with a question like the above it would be reasonable to answer it with speculative fiction. This is a personal story that takes the reader into my experience of working in a team selected solely by I.Q. as opposed to exceptional accomplishment, we weren't professors or Hollywood actors (who often seem to get a perfect score on Raven) or had succeeded at difficult competitions. A world where a high I.Q. person might be a computer programmer, a failed academic, a housewife, a security guard but by no means a "genius". In this story we see a high-IQ team is flummoxed by problems such as homelessness and racism, not in a catastrophic way, but in the sense that these problems linger on despite efforts to solve them. See Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Lothing on the Campaign Trail '72 or Mailer's Armies of the Night for examples of what they called "The New Journalism" in this day based on this technique.
- syndicatedjelly 3y ago
  Huh yeah that's kinda what I thought, my IQ isn't high enough to understand you.
- turtleyacht 3y ago
  > they don't see the connections in what I say Just wanted to say, thank-you (and syndicatedjelly) for helping me relate. It's the first time I heard it that way--with the same results: sometimes right, sometimes wrong. As a programmer, it helps to have the compiler keep me grounded in logic, so to speak.

I too read all of it. Sometimes it's the journey of reminiscence. It could activate a graph of neuronal memory as we relate to it. Maybe how an event smelled, or the kind of fluorescent lighting in the rooms. Or the sounds of walking on pavement and speaking to strangers. Briefly, the urban space becomes a domed chat space.

syndicatedjelly 3y ago
Was this written by an AI or something?
- turtleyacht 3y ago
  No, 100% a musing brought on by parent and your reply :)

PaulHoule 3y ago

If your S.Q. (Schizotypy Quotient) was higher you'd see how it's related. One of my most obnoxious symptoms is that people are always telling me they don't see the connections in what I say. Sometimes they are right but sometimes they are terribly, terribly wrong. Faced with a question like the above it would be reasonable to answer it with speculative fiction. This is a personal story that takes the reader into my experience of working in a team selected solely by I.Q. as opposed to exceptional accomplishment, we weren't professors or Hollywood actors (who often seem to get a perfect score on Raven) or had succeeded at difficult competitions. A world where a high I.Q. person might be a computer programmer, a failed academic, a housewife, a security guard but by no means a "genius". In this story we see a high-IQ team is flummoxed by problems such as homelessness and racism, not in a catastrophic way, but in the sense that these problems linger on despite efforts to solve them. See Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Lothing on the Campaign Trail '72 or Mailer's Armies of the Night for examples of what they called "The New Journalism" in this day based on this technique.

syndicatedjelly 3y ago
Huh yeah that's kinda what I thought, my IQ isn't high enough to understand you.
turtleyacht 3y ago
> they don't see the connections in what I say Just wanted to say, thank-you (and syndicatedjelly) for helping me relate. It's the first time I heard it that way--with the same results: sometimes right, sometimes wrong. As a programmer, it helps to have the compiler keep me grounded in logic, so to speak.