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Agreed, but a question occurred to me: what if high IQ people aren't more delusional but more capable of articulating or acting upon their delusions, thus makin
by SamPatt 2y ago
Agreed, but a question occurred to me: what if high IQ people aren't more delusional but more capable of articulating or acting upon their delusions, thus making it more apparent?
The delusions of a normal intellect are probably less interesting, and they're less likely to be a person who garners attention generally. But they may be equally detached from reality.
- notahacker 2y agoI think it's mostly that they're more difficult to persuade that their delusions aren't simply them being smarter than the normies around them. That trait isn't unique to high IQ people or unique or people whose choice of reading material and social scene is based around the idea of accessing advanced modes of reasoning, but it likely is more common amongst them
- lesostep 2y agoHigh IQ in a modern test is about pattern recognition. I haven't seen it pointed out yet, but oversensitive pattern recognition can lead to illusions. I.e. if you didn't sleep for two days, you can start "seeing" weird stuff sometimes. It's cause you brain is hallucinating something that isn't there, but because you see something, brain recognizes pattern and alerts you before checking against other patterns and common sense. So I'd imagine that if someone is very good at pattern recognition they could have very high IQ but also not have enough erudition to check if the patterns they see is actually there. Which arguably what could have happened in Yudkowskis case, since he scored very high on IQ, but dropped out of middle school.