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 { The short story *Country of the Blind* by H. G. Wells is a nice story about this phenomenon of too much competence being seen as a lack of competence, illustrated on a story of a completely healthy man who finds himself in a village of people who are all blind. ~drummyfish }
 
+## Types Of Intelligence, Traits Of Intelligent People
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+Below are some traits and types of intelligence, things we frequently see in highly intelligent men -- that is those who will also likely (but not necessarily) score high on an IQ test. We're about to see why intelligence is such a fuzzy, difficult to grasp concept and why it's hard to measure -- there are simply too many dimensions and unclear features. Notice also that some of the below are simply personality traits: for example curiosity and the habit of questioning everything -- this means that it is (to a limited degree but still) possible to increase intelligence by changing one's habits and personality, something that's difficult but not impossible.
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+- **Speed, fast reaction, quick thinking and learning**: higher intelligence can almost be equated with being faster in thinking ([retardation](retard.md), the opposite of high intelligence, literally means "being slow") -- consider that virtually any problem can eventually be solved by anyone given enough time (even if only by [brute force](brute_force.md) trial/error over many years), what distinguishes us is only how fast we can find the solution. Fast thinking is apparent in the smart guy: he quickly accepts facts as they come and jumps from one task to another, which can actually make him seem absentminded or downright retarded -- but the results he achieves show he in fact is thinking both quickly and precisely.
+- **General intelligence**, or good overall performance in many different areas: those with high intellect are typically performing above average at everything, even physical tasks such as sports, handiwork etc. They do good overall at school and have many vastly different hobbies and talents, for example [programming](programming.md) combined with painting, poetry and sculpting, or perhaps geology, singing, model trains and [chess](chess.md) and so on. A single specialization never satisfies the big brain guy. He may on occasion end up achieving bad results, but they're typically only due to lack of interest; once the man gets interested in something, he will get good at it very quickly, no matter what it is.
+- **Deep focus, profound and complex thinking and long attention span**: the intelligent will rarely let himself fall a victim to [shortcut thinking](shortcut_thinking.md), he will pursue ideas deeper than most people and will almost never tire doing it -- he enjoys it and relaxes by thinking. Unlike a retard consuming entertainment media, the smart guy will spend long hours alone, accompanied just by his thoughts. He thinks constantly and can entertain himself only by thinking alone. Thanks to this he starts to see deeper connections and the "big picture" that remains hidden to others. A [retard](zoomer.md) (often euphemistically called ADHD or something) can't focus for more than a minute, he has to resort to accepting prechewed facts that someone feeds him because he can't verify their logical validity or plausibility himself.
+- **Spatial skills**: the ability to imagine and manipulate geometric and visual objects purely in one's mind. Those with this skill can conjure and manipulate three dimensional objects in their mind easily, play board games blindfolded, solve geometric puzzles, orient themselves in foreign environments and so on.
+- **Talent for [art](art.md)**: the intelligent often have a very good feeling and intuition for [beauty](beauty.md) and aesthetics (sometimes even possessing superior skills such as perfect pitch hearing), i.e. that which is hard or impossible to describe mathematically -- he just sees if something looks good or bad even without being able to describe why, and that's why he can make good art (even if it's for example of engineering nature): he sees/feels what should be added (or taken away) to get closer to an ideal, without the effort of conscious focus. A retard can't see if something looks bad, he will gladly accept that "[modern](modern.md) games look good", that "modern music sounds good", he won't mind bad typography, won't hear someone's singing off key etc., he can only rely on stupid simplifications such as "higher resolution = gooder" or "more newer = more gooder than more old" or "others like it = I like it" -- that's why an idiot never improves at drawing even if he's been doing it for long time, he just isn't guided by anything towards improvement. That's why idiots always buy courses and seek teachers, they can't self study because they're literally intellectually blind.
+- **[Language](human_language.md) skills**: this includes talent for learning new languages, ability to "hear and feel" bad grammar, having large active vocabulary, giving good and accurate descriptions and definitions, communicating efficiently and so on. This must however never be confused with thesaurus abuse and [buzzword](buzzword.md) spam often seen in [reddit](reddit.md) [atheists](atheism.md), [soyentists](soyence.md) and other pseudointellectuals. There seems to be quite a lot of research in psychology suggesting that language plays a bigger role than initially expected, for example many of the problems previously thought to have been of spatial natural have shown to rather activate the language neurons in the brain. After all language isn't just words but rather relationships between concepts that are represented by abstract symbols. Our brains do not work like calculators -- they work more like "[AI](ai.md)" language models which learn to solve problems (even those to which this is not an efficient solution) by learning patterns in natural language.
+- **Good memory**: both long term and [short term](ram.md). Obviously, as is known, memory is a crucial resource for computation and brain is nothing more than a computer.
+- **[Abstract](abstraction.md) thinking**: a dummy chicken brain spends majority of time thinking about quite specific physical objects and material concepts (car, house, money, clothes, women, ...) with occasional treatment of simple abstract ideas (counting with fractions, arguing about politics and economy, ...). Big brain, on the other hand, will more often think about the abstract and also in significantly higher levels of abstraction, perceiving subtle differences between them, make generalizations of concepts, invent new useful abstractions etc.
+- **Mental calculations**: probably thanks to good memory, quick thinking, language skills and other mentioned traits it happens that the smart are often fast and precise at mental calculations. This is not an absolute rule but all high IQs are at least slightly above average.
+- **Emotional and social intelligence, having higher life goals, resisting low instincts, focusing on the spiritual and intellectual before the material**: the intelligent shows high empathy and understanding of others, he can see through lies and propaganda easily, he has the ability to accept suffering, give up comfort and safety, he is able to [love](love.md) those who hate him for seeing the deeper reasons for why they are so, he can forgive, he is humble, never [worships any people](hero_culture.md), never seeks fame or success, never respects anyone's authority, despises prizes, medals and honors, he loves animals and other life forms and adopts higher life goals such as [selflessness](selflessness.md). For this he always tends to [socialist](socialism.md) and [altruistic](altruism.md) thinking, adopting [pacifism](pacifism.md), [communism](communism.md), [veganism](veganism.md) etc. A retard is closer to an animal: preoccupied with satisfying immediate needs (see e.g. [consumerism](consumerism.md), various addictions etc.) and self interest (typically being a [capitalist](capitalism.md), [fascist](fascism.md) etc.).
+- **Creativity, non-conformance, critical thinking, questioning everything**: a genius is special by finding solutions in places where no one thought of looking before rather than by hard [work](work.md) (that he may do too, but it's not what's exclusive to the genius), i.e. solutions that were missed not for being difficult to achieve but rather too unconventional or dangerous by being in conflict with established ways. A chimp will just learn norms and values of society; a genius will always question them and will reject those that make no sense (in our society practically all), so he will become a hated noncomformist accepting controversial things such as [pedophilia](pedophilia.md). It's not a voluntary rebellion, his brain is physically incapable of NOT seeing what's actually good and what's bad, he naturally questions absolutely everything, including things like basic ethics and opinions of respected authorities. An idiot on the other hand is a conformist, tribalist, often a soldier or worker more similar to a machine mindlessly performing orders and dancing as he's told.
+- **Elevated sense of humor**: almost universally the intelligent love smart humor and are good at creating it, they can make fun of themselves easily and make jokes even where it's seen as inappropriate, e.g. dark humor during funerals, high quality [trolling](trolling.md) and offensive [jokes](joke.md) inserted into serious speeches, lectures, books, papers, making fun of taboos and so on. Again don't confuse this with cheap crap "humor" by wannabe celebrities who just think it's funny to laugh constantly and non-stop shit out streams of words just to keep saying something, sweating to stay in the center of attention, which they think makes them a master stand up comedian. Being able to spot the difference is also part of having higher IQ. It's extremely simple to entertain a retard because he buys cheap jokes such as puns, pop-culture references, sex jokes, parodies of famous people etc., he can't tell if humor is good or bad so he can easily keep consuming mass-produced humor such as Netflix shows, which to the smart equals torture.
+- **Seeing patterns**: all kinds of, be it visual, social, mathematical, [historical](history.md) etc. Again this will lead to seeing hidden truths and the individual being labeled "conspiracy theorist" or even getting diagnosed with schizophrenia.
+- ...
+
 ## Quick IQ Estimates
 
 If you are [American](usa.md) (or just someone else who happened to take the test), your [SAT](sat.md) is basically your IQ, it has been shown that SATs highly correlate with standardized psychologist IQ tests. Just take your percentile on SATs and convert it to IQ and you have your IQ.