Would You Like to Have 20 IQ Points Fewer or More?

Do you sometimes wish you had 20 fewer Iq points? So you can relate to people better. Or 20 points higher? But you may think 9

20 points higher would be very interesting. I love my brain, I love thinking. I’m in love with my brain. We’ve been carrying on a love affair for a long time now. It’s like the most wonderful toy you ever got to play with. 20 points more seems like a total blast, but no doubt it would alienate me from everyone even more.

At 147, I have a hard time (statistically, anyway) with everyone under 117 IQ, which is 8

What’s important here is the meaning of alienation. If you asked me if I were alienated from everyone with an IQ below 117, I would say of course not! Don’t be ridiculous.

But maybe that’s not what’s important. Maybe what’s important is that everyone with an IQ below 117 is alienated from me! I just now thought of it that way. Of course there’s no way to test that out without doing a very uncomfortable study that is very hard to do, but if you are asking me intuitively, yes, it does seem to be correct.

People just seem to be weirded out and disconnected from me on a fundamental level. That’s been much more the case as I got older, but maybe it was always the case on some level. It’s hard to describe but it’s like there’s some sort of a massive disconnect on some fundamental level. Like there’s a wall up between other people and me and can’t be breached no matter what. I have no idea what the wall or why it is there or anything about it or or whether it has anything to do with IQ.

Perhaps I’m just a freak, but I think it’s deeper than that. For instance, the smarter the person is, the more fascinated they are by me, the less they think I’m a freak and the more they think I’m an especially desirable and valuable person. They’re not alienated from me at all usually. The smarter someone is, the less of a wall or disconnect there is with them.

This is all boiled down to my intelligence because that’s what smarter people find fascinating. But I probably have other pleasant aspects to my personality too. I’ll never fight with you. I’m the least irritable person you will ever meet. I’m funny and I can be quite warm and loving if you ask me. I am actually very kind and  considerate. I’m the stereotypical nice guy.

I guess there’s more to that list even. The funny thing is most people just see that exterior and they say, “Damn, he’s weird,” and they never look under the hood to see what’s there. They’re just as capable as seeing how smart I am as anyone else is, and I probably ought to blow them away more than people near my level.

But it seems like the more you blow someone away mentally, instead of being fascinated by you, they’re either bored or repelled. The boredom and repulsion increases as IQ goes down. And people at my level who should be less impressed by my brain (because it’s near their level so it’s nothing special) are actually the most fascinated by it.

I have no solution to this conundrum. A theory suggests, however. Perhaps the only people who can appreciate the wonder of people with very high IQ’s – the most intelligent people of all – are other smart or very smart people.

Maybe I could have gone somewhere in life, but more probably I would have ended up like those people in The Outsiders – living alone at 40, no friends, celibate or incel, extremely introverted, job paying minimum wage. That’s the typical endpoint for a man with an IQ over 160.

20 points less would give me 127. I say now that I don’t want that but if I had been that way my whole life, maybe it would have been just fine. Most people I know at that level are happy, and people with 127 IQ statistically do much better than people with 147 IQ.

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2 thoughts on “Would You Like to Have 20 IQ Points Fewer or More?”

  1. Life would be much easier – because I really think higher IQ people simply get better jobs. Well, they might have to focus on a different subject, one that’s profitable.

  2. Its not just that you have an IQ 147, which is like being blessed with excellent brain hardware and memory. Genius IQ’ers by default also inherit ever-improving brain software. They use their outlier brain power to run clearer, more abstract, and more red-pilled versions of objective reality which are continuously updated as new information is absorbed and integrated. This is both a curse and a gift. No wonder why people with IQ > 160 are so debilitated. They see reality too clearly! Which is perhaps best summarized in Schopenhauer’s essay “On the Vanity of Existence.”

    Normal people are not capable of doing this. Once they reach a certain age and feel like they have learned enough about the world to function just well enough to survive and reproduce, they stop growing intellectually. They don’t care about truth, justice, and objective reality. They are happy and satisfied in their subjective realities. They are the herd.

    So when they think you are weird, they are right in the sense of the word. Weird = strange, uncanny, odd, unnatural, peculiar, off-beat, eccentric. You are not ordinary like 99% of their friends and acquaintances are ordinary.

    Having a high IQ is like being on a big hill and thus having a greater vantage point. You can see everything someone on a smaller hill can see, but that person on the smaller hill obviously can not perceive what you are capable of.

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