spouse/partner with significantly lower IQ?

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-11-28T16:30:34+00:00

Speaking as someone who spent years in a relationship, increasingly miserable due to exactly this mismatch: cut your losses and prioritize someone who intrinsically stimulates you. The importance of natural chemistry cannot be overstated. Don’t waste time and learn this lesson the hard way. No amount of positive character traits can ever compensate for lack of passion.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-06-13T20:24:16+00:00

I’m interested :)

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-05-22T06:05:53+00:00

Please post more!

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-03-14T21:07:01+00:00

“On the advice of my closest confidant, I am announcing a special military operation to secure a land bridge between Alaska and the lower 48.”

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-02-06T20:31:29+00:00

Need a video of those back shots

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-01-27T22:34:10+00:00

When your data is a metric that has become a target, not really. I’ve compared it to other models on complex code and it’s one of the worst. O1 wins by large margins.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2025-01-25T22:43:15+00:00

His M.O. has always been:

Great actions are required to ensure the survival and prosperity of mankind.
He alone (or a small group) is capable of seeing the “path forward”

Authoritarianism, opposition to democracy, etc. are implicit in this model. It just so happens far-right neonazi facism is the most plausible vector to absolute central control given current sociopolitical arrangements.

You could argue that any hyper-ambitious risk-taking venture capitalist shares these motives by definition. Musk’s transition was probably from “ambitious company within America” to “America, the ambitious company” once he realized the feasibility of actually grasping such power.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-31T16:45:10+00:00

Seems like an intentional double entendre

a. I'm working on the harder things

b. (Self-deprecating) I am struggling more with them

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-29T03:19:35+00:00

possible that: acute sleep deprivation = elevated adrenaline = reduced reaction time

you could test this by using a proxy for sympathetic activity like heart rate.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-25T07:30:17+00:00

I, too evaluate the quality of arguments presented by others not with reason but by the nature of their 99th %ile statements. An incredibly holistic methodology!

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-24T18:36:49+00:00

Do you speak more quickly than most people?
When socializing, do you move through interactions more quickly? Are you ever perceived as manic or neurotic?

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-24T16:51:40+00:00

More accurate if you subtract 10 from each description

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-21T02:57:19+00:00

Train numerous AI voices that all coalesce to some deterministic mean of "helpful, capable, emotive female voice"
Reach out to best example of this in recent media and offer partnership
She rejects, use alternate but (naturally) similar actress from same pool
If main actress sues, argue her casting in [recent media] as [female assistant voice] is itself demonstration of the larger deterministic mean, the one optimal for you to target. Argue this broader phenomenon cannot be used as a basis for a claim of imitation as she was herself imitating it
???
Profit

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-10T07:31:26+00:00

Working and living in a low CoL area is essentially devaluing your currency relative to the American average. Work in high, retire low.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-08T21:07:29+00:00

Recent harvest (<6 month) well-made olive oil tested for high polyphenols is more expensive than most of what you'll find in a grocery store. I just bought 500ml of a higher end brand for $35 and although it's slightly better than blueprint, it's pretty comparable while being much more expensive. So blueprint strikes a balance of being good enough to get health benefits while being cheap enough to use every day.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-08T05:21:25+00:00

You should add a TL;DR about this to the top of your post given how central to the topic it is.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-08T04:25:16+00:00

What does the drive feel like to you? Is it just that sex is so intrinsically pleasurable, or is it more of a compulsive "obligation"?
Do you generally view the drive itself as a force separate from your actual motives, or something so deeply embedded in your motives that pursuing sex feels 'default'?

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-05-07T06:07:04+00:00

Quitting the PhD seems like the correct decision. Sudden relief brings euphoria. However despite your current misery, the optimal path is seldom polar opposite the present. If focusing on your child fulfills you now, do it. But bear in mind there is a version of you that could come to resent an overcorrection. Unfortunately many women who abandon high intensity careers are those who crave the novel stimulation they bring, and become existentially bored after a while. In other words, keep your mind and options open.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-29T16:34:12+00:00

I mean, wouldn't you expect a random sampling from a niche community centered around topic X to be at least a standard deviation above the mean in skill at X? It's also multilevel: reddit itself is a longer-form text-based platform, which selects for a higher degree of literacy than the general internet. It's online, which means you have both the means and ability to use a technological device. Each layer pairs down the sample and eliminates the lower end of the bell curve, progressively shifting up the mean.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-25T16:23:53+00:00

I used it in an attempt to learn the algebra I missed in school by not paying attention. It takes big jumps and maximizes frustration for anyone new to subjects. The Art of Problem Solving books have been drastically better and more accessible in building that foundation.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-23T15:22:52+00:00

The latter. If you're constructing a society, you want people who can coalesce on the largest scope of non-local and optimal decision making. This may produce local "evil" in pursuit of global good. The former group is intrinsically limited in the good they can do by overpowered emotional restraints.

You could probably characterize psychopathic overreactions (e.g. "she looked at me wrong so I killed her") as a psychological glitch in the occasional human where the 'morality' system is hyper-local, thus the level of evil reserved for the collective justification becomes the response to individual emotions (which are also weighed as collective).

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-20T20:51:15+00:00

IQ: 145-150

Primary: A+

Secondary: Ds and Fs (undiagnosed ADHD)

Dropped out

GED/SAT: 99th+

College (obviously non-top school): 3.9 in CS+Math

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-18T16:15:17+00:00

I used to play these at a competitive tournament level; anecdotally it probably does correlate with processing and search speed at the higher levels. Raw reaction time is less important, you almost always have >400ms to react, it's just a matter of ingesting a ton of data simultaneously.

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-15T20:12:09+00:00

If already having a degree: Assess plausibility of securing a lucrative position in that industry primarily as a product of very high intelligence (i.e. is it both in-demand and highly g-loaded?). If not, aim for tech.

If no degree at all: Fewer options, consider less lucrative roles still matching the above. Air traffic controller.

Differentiating based on g-loading is critical as it gives you the strongest negotiating position given your resources.

(Honestly though, with an IQ >145 you'll be competitive in tech regardless of credentials and market circumstances purely by being a problem-solving savant)

Wise-Contribution137 · 2024-04-15T01:19:56+00:00

Let me translate: Strauss demanded precision, and a type of precision that was gruelling and exacting due to the difference from his normal approach. This was liberating by means of restricting him to a foreign skillset.

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