UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would say no. Lots of the super smart people become eccentric. I suspect any smarter and they’d just end up flat crazy. Dealing with being the only one in the room who understands what you’re saying can be lonely.
I’m working with a group of people, some 10 years younger than me, who don’t really understand technology. It feels weird.
dope@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So you’d eschew understanding in favor of “fitting in”?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
A 100%. If you become the most intelligent person in the world, it will be hard to create connection with people because very few people would truly understand how you are.
We tend to make friends with like minded people and similar intelligence and pressing that button would disrupt that.
Sternhammer@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Nah, your just use your increased intellect to get other people to push the button for themselves, increasing the pool of intelligent potential friends available to you.
Actually this reminds me of a story I read last year where two people are in a race to massively increase their intelligence. Neither can tolerate the potential threat the existence of another hyper-intelligent person holds so it’s a struggle to the death. If I remember correctly they gain there ability to effectively read people’s minds by reading body language, micro expressions, etc., develop new systems of logic and hyper-efficient language to think in and have an entirely mental showdown at the end.
Unfortunately I’m too stupid to remember the title.
UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m very interested in understanding. But I don’t want to always be the smartest person in the room. I’m already the smartest in most situations I’m in IRL. If it was always like that, I’d definitely go crazy.