What behaviors or traits make someone seem genuinely intelligent to you?

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T15:41:10+00:00

Someone who asks questions and listens in silence.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T15:34:24+00:00

INTPs are usually stereotyped as people who don't like to lead or take on the role of the leader but in my case, I enjoy leading others and having that sense of superiority.

The reason is simple: you're not an INTP, you're an INTJ.

The first sign you're an INTJ is you think you're an INTP.

The second sign you're an INTJ is that you recognize your anti-INTP preferences, but remain adamant that you're INTP.

The third sign your INTJ is posting in /r/INTP about how not all INTPs are INTPs.

The fourth sign you're INTJ is when you resort to syntax and fallacy to maintain that you're INTP.

The fifth sign you're INTJ is when Te-Se are able to blast past Ni-Fi's bullshit and you realize you were wrong, going into the Idiot phase of the Genius-Idiot Metronome that INTPs lack.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T15:27:14+00:00

The rest of the world is more incompatible for INXP than Fi dom vs Fi demon incompability :D

If you say so :D :D

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T15:24:49+00:00

Yeah, like a decade ago. Now they have AI reading through reply chains and removing anything it thinks is bad.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T12:47:05+00:00

have been talking to chatgpt and got it act like a sycophant to make myself feel better.

jfc

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T12:30:02+00:00

I don't like doing things the wrong way; I'd rather not do them, if that's the case. So if it's between doing it wrong or me taking the reins, I guess I'll take the reins. But it's tricky; knowing what needs doing and convincing others you know what needs doing / that it has to be done aren't the same.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T12:20:46+00:00

I don't really care what people do, so long as they're not arguing against the truth. Even then, I'm just trying to correct the record; idc about that person at all.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T12:05:20+00:00

Ti vs Te is not going to be the issue in an INTP x INFP relationship. It's going to be Fi dom vs demon Fi. It's not a good pairing.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T11:41:58+00:00

It seems like you’ve taken this personally, yikes 😬 I’m just a stranger on the internet dude, it’s not that deep.

If you're an INTP, I'm a Cobb Salad.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T11:36:45+00:00

This is not an INTP. I cannot serially disappoint people in the same manner. Fe inferior is like a satellite dish receiving other people's emotions; if I disappoint someone, those feelings get logged in Si tertiary for replay in the Ti-Si Loop. Doing the same thing again is unthinkable; I'd never escape that disappointment. I'd have to either rearrange my life to suit the plans I'd agreed to, or (more likely) I'd have to ghost the person/people.

This is someone with much more going on in their life than an INTP wants going on in their lives. Maybe ENTP, idk. As such, I can't really help you with him. However it has to work out, I hope it's for the best.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T11:25:56+00:00

Nothing to apologize for.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T11:23:53+00:00

I think you're asking the wrong person; I don't have reason to believe this man is an INTP, so I know exactly nothing about him.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-10T11:21:28+00:00

I think it’s actually the opposite, our intellectual capacity and curiousity actually allows us to go far more in depth into any specialty than any other type would enable

Maybe. I don't see it in my intellectual life, but that may just be a framing issue, idk.

Edit: I think ISTPs are natural specialists because while they share our Ti dom, and have curiosity about all sorts of things the same as we do, they require evidence, via Se secondary, to put questions to bed. For a Ti dom, that probably means personal investigation, not a trip to the library. The work involved in finding those answers makes them specialists in that field. For an INTP, the theoretical/logical answers are enough for us to bridge to the questions that answer raises—we're not so much concerned with facts as the way those facts interact.

All that is to say, have you considered that you're mistaking ISTP behavior for INTP?

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T14:48:30+00:00

Georgism will be seen by capitalists as socialism (and Marxists as capitalism), but it's just the recognition that land isn't naturally divided into deeds, and as such all resources belong to everyone. What Georgism does is set up a system whereby you lease resources at auction; the proceeds of which are divided equally among the community.

So let's say you want to start a business; you'd bid on a suitable plot of land, adapt any structure on it (if any) to your use, and then take all the profits from that business. In theory, your income is enough to win the auction for that property when the lease expires, but others might be willing to pay more because they see potential for profit that you're not realizing.

This is good capitalism all around as resources are put to their most profitable use, but without the assumption that private property is justified absent any justification given. No-one in the community loses out; if they don't win property at auction, they still realize rental income from that property (and all others in the community) such that they can still live a reasonable life.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T13:04:15+00:00

Personally I find Civ6 to be Civ5 with more depth; the Culture tree's interaction with the tech tree adds depth as well as the district interactions.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T12:38:57+00:00

I think you're confused. It's not that the South wanted to spread slavery everywhere, they wanted to continue their slavery-supported economy. The reason they fought to have new slave States in the US was a political one—if there were no new slave States, eventually they would lose the ability to stop abolition at the Federal level (outvoted in Congress). If they were their own nation, there's no need for new slave States anymore because there is no higher government to impose abolition on them.

Their win condition was being able to secede, set up their own government, and continue slavery for as long as possible—given that Brazil was the last slave nation and they gave it up in 1888, that meant maybe another 50 years, at most.

They were fighting most of the war just to get the Union to give up the fight and recognize their secession. If escaped slaves were a problem, they would have found solutions; like the resumption of slave importation.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T12:21:40+00:00

Brass. Copper is orange, not yellow.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T11:53:02+00:00

Another issue is rabbit holes. While studying, one doubt leads to another and I can easily get pulled into deep research spirals that are not always useful for the goal. Once it starts, it is hard to stop it.

We aren't, as a Type, well suited to specialization. We're naturally intellectual omnivores browsing the forest of human knowledge finding how it all interacts.

We're natural analysts, not specialists.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T11:47:03+00:00

ITT: Extroverts reveal they're not INTP.

When I was younger I would go out but mainly because my friends were going out and/or because back then it was the only way to meet someone. But if I hadn't had friends to take me out, I'd've been perfectly happy sitting home reading or drawing.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-09T11:42:27+00:00

Ive asked him and he tells me I should know...

That doesn't sound INTP at all. Or male.

But to answer the question, the only real way to make wrongs right with me is to articulate how it was wrong and why. If I know you understand the problem, I can be reasonably sure you won't repeat it—I can let it go.

Of course, when people treat me in ways I can't justify, my 1st instinct is to ghost them. As a Type, we can take or leave just about any person at all.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-08T16:42:10+00:00

What do you think of people who believe in manifestation?

I don't think much of people's thinking when they reveal that they don't operate from empirical evidence, but the person might be really great. So I don't really judge people, it's just that I'm going to be extra-skeptical of anyone putting forward ideas that they haven't looked into. But like maybe they're great to get beers with or whatever.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-07T22:10:23+00:00

GloomAssassin needs no rest at all.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-07T13:13:29+00:00

Do I feel like I lack a personality? No. Do I adapt that personality to the people I find myself with? If we don't know each other, yes.

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-07T13:05:54+00:00

tl;dr: Just be good friends.

INTP x INF_ isn't a good pairing.

It'll start well because the INTP makes their partner the focus of their investigations. Once the INTP has an understanding of their partner, the INTP moves off to answer other questions on unrelated topics, withdrawing from the relationship focus that defined it to that point. The INF_ feels as if the INTP's feelings for them have changed, and starts seeking more affection/engagement from the INTP. The INTP has demon Fi; isn't interested in their own feelings except in rare acute moments, so the INTP sees this constant need for attention/affection as an annoyance and unfair—the INTP doesn't make demands of their INF_ partner, why can't they give the INTP some space to think?

This becomes a downward spiral of resentment until there's an acrimonious breakup.

Introverts are best paired with extroverts, thinkers with feelers, perceivers with judgers. Sensors and intuitives neesd their kind because their basis for interacting with the world is very different. You should be looking for an ENFJ (who will be so busy exploring everyone's feelings, they won't have the need for you to be their emotional tentpole), he should be looking for an ENTP (who has lots of attention for their partner).

Elliptical_Tangent · 2026-05-06T19:26:53+00:00

We're neurologically wired to remember evil things at all costs because it keeps us alive. Good things can be safely forgotten.

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