Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?

• ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can still find yourself ostracized. The world's smartest man has far fewer potential conversational partners than the world's averagest man or many of its dumber men. If he's also the world's most emotionally intelligent, he has neither conversation partners, nor people who can understand and connect on the level he can, etc...

  It just gets more and more isolating, at some point.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think that if you are smart about talking-to-people stuff, then you can talk to anybody. Intelligence isn’t necessarily this isolating brainiac trip. I think it can actually make you BETTER at everything.

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