Inside the dust jacket of the book about Sam Bankman-Fried, there is the organization chart of his businesses. It’s so funny, it’s like an illustration to an article about group IQ distributions. Top ten rows are all Asian names. Then some Anglo names appear with an odd Italian cropping up. And some Hispanics on the very bottom. And, unsurprisingly, a Jewish guy on top of it all.
People get freaked out about IQ but it’s silly because IQ doesn’t guarantee happiness. Mine is clearly much lower than Bankman-Fried’s. Some of the statistics games he played I can’t even comprehend, let alone play. But when I read the letters he exchanged with his girlfriend, God, those poor bastards were pathetic. Bankman-Fried was clinically miserable. Completely incapable of enjoying anything. My life is a fountain of joy compared to those of all these woke geniuses with their IQs, boatloads of money, and “polyamorous child-free socially conscious lifestyles”.
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Smart / stupid.
Ignorant / Educated.
Suave / naive.
Sensible / Gullible
Wise / foolish.
But let’s not be judgmental: Perish the thought. That might enable one to make useful distinctions.
In case one wondered from whence the general unfortunate prejudice against academics arose.
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Yes, low-IQ people tend to be angry and resentful against people with higher IQs. They think everything that is too complex for them to understand is a conspiracy to exclude them.
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You’re having a wet pavement causes rain moment.
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Care to explain this metaphor? My IQ is insufficient for these puzzles.
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Clearly the primary marker for super high IQ is the extent to which those who have it conceal associated facts from those who are searching for such people in order to exploit them for profit.
And so the “brain trust” of such organisations consists of people who have yet to weaponise their intelligence against narcissistic abusers and exploiters.
SBF is beyond banal in this role he’s had: narcissistic exploiters who self-deal in dopamine boosters and ritualistic boredom to accentuate the effects are garden variety across a number of fields.
Nota bene: don’t make things look too easy, because your counterparts will resent you for exposing their everyday “workplace shoplifting”, plus they will gang up on you if they aren’t blowing your cover outright.
Not to worry, the people who eventually get free learn a valuable lesson: build a company around an amazing skunkworks team.
Then never let anyone know it’s just you and maybe one or two other people who can work miracles when they’re not being exploited.
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