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Tldr? Title seems clickbaity and I don't want to reward that.
I wish there were a way to quantify that impulse, because that is often my first thought when presented a click-baity link: "Shall I award my attention to this"?
Here are a few patterns I've seen in studies or surfaced: 1. Intelligence is an ability to observe, gather feedback based on past observations, and see patterns at a speed much faster than others at a lower general level. The growth in insight can be exponential, but it also means you start thinking at levels of abstraction and patterns that are layers above people at other levels. You struggle to communicate. 2. Hig…
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The only health problems associated with higher intelligence (as opposed to either low intelligence or completely independent of intelligence) are [1] high functioning autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Two can be treated with pills when they are disruptive with relatively high success, and the other (Autism) is to me not a particularly net negative condition when high functioning (several immediately family…
"high functioning" kind of autism is a misnomer - even if you aren't the kind that bangs their head on the floor / avoided being non-verbal, life can be quite challenging. I agree that it isn't necessarily a net negative, but the success of an individual on the spectrum seems highly conditional on life circumstances. The thing is, genetics for autism also seem to produce people with adhd (reciently rolled into the sp…