Being generous, thoughtful, and kind is a sign of high intelligence
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#2Clearly most I̶R̶C̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶r̶s̶ people have never made this connection. /s
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#3Maybe EQ, not IQ
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#4What about highly intelligent psychopaths?
https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/high-functioning-psychopat...
Maybe some of those highly intelligent people are good at pretending to be generous, thoughtful, and kind because it helps achieve their goals.
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#5What about highly intelligent psychopaths? https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/high-functioning-psychopat... Maybe some of those highly intelligent people are good at pretending to be generous, thoughtful, and kind because it helps achieve their goals.
I think in the coming years we’ll agree that the notion of a psychopath as described/defined by pop science was completely off base and made up mostly to discredit opponents in one way or another. First, however, we have to find a valid substitution so we can swing to the next branch before the plebs catch on that we were making shit up.
Like most of pop psych.
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#6Your Spidey sense should tingle whenever you read about a psychology result in a popular medium. Especially if that result flatters you in some way.
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#7Simple when you think about it. It's so much easier to be the opposite of those things.
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#9What about highly intelligent psychopaths? https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/high-functioning-psychopat... Maybe some of those highly intelligent people are good at pretending to be generous, thoughtful, and kind because it helps achieve their goals.
I think in the coming years we’ll agree that the notion of a psychopath as described/defined by pop science was completely off base and made up mostly to discredit opponents in one way or another. First, however, we have to find a valid substitution so we can swing to the next branch before the plebs catch on that we were making shit up. Like most of pop psych.
Some of it is probably real, like repeat offenders of predatory crime. If you've done multiple violent robberies there's probably something in your brain off that allows you to do all that.
There's a predatory ecological niche in every society. Very common in nature too. Altruism is less common than predation in nature, it seems.
Though in the workspace, you may be onto something.
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#10What about highly intelligent psychopaths? https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/high-functioning-psychopat... Maybe some of those highly intelligent people are good at pretending to be generous, thoughtful, and kind because it helps achieve their goals.
“Being X is a sign of Y” doesn’t imply “Being Y is a sign of X.”