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The lesswrong community at least the writers let's say they're like IQ is higher on average let's just say 110 without capturing the data, it's not really important to boast about it as Stephen Hawking would say. But it exista and that's something. However the style of writing here it's not like a textbook or even a non-fiction book. It's more personal. It's also written in a way in plain natural English where it's able to reach a wider audience. Writing in this style avoids sounding or coming off pompous towards individuals of superior intellectual capacity. Making the articles somewhat less concise without devaluing the information itself. There is a humbleness to the writing and yet the style often chosen is not jargon laden and more narrative. My sneaking suspicion is this is for the reason that these are mainly n = 1 narrative life observations made by high IQ individuals. Where these are observations are important to the writers life as untowards but themselves. They are of such importance and value to the individual person that these intelligent and academically inclined individuals feel a passion to share it amongst other individuals who might yet understand and find relatability in the writers curse of knowledge. I suspect it is probably the wider experience of most individuals upon these forums is that their ideas fall upon a dearth of understanding in their personal lives and as a result while they feel an urge and passion to share their valuable insights with others. However yet not too waste their own time by overworking or over developing the lexicon and the linguistical density of their writing as towards other intellectual individuals understanding capabilities themselves.
An idea of true genius is yet more simple and plain in view to the person themselves then as it appears towards the outside and in post production of story, stardom and fame. Genius arrives at simple conclusions to complex problems. But genius is to see things as simple if not self-evident. It is towards everyone else to create a story of brilliance. The story of brilliance is untowards the capability, capacity and intellectual life as well as eventuation in peronal life narrative circumstance of these individuals themselves. Yeah, you can make yourself sound smart if you want to, you can always make yourself sound smarter, everyone can. But why would you? Everyone who is smart enough already realizes it doesn't actually help you in any material capacity to do so whatsoever. As obviously ideas articulated are self-evident if not obfuscated and gatekept in order to fence off the horde of intellectually jealous and deranged peons. You just see it in plain sight before everybody else and given enough time somebody else would have thought of anyway. It is funny to think that genius is simple because it actually is the case that someone half is intelligent would have stubmled upon the same conclusion yet gone unrecognized for it were they not of some made up story creation of reput brilliance. No one wants to see genius shine. Intelligence agents, they are like how psychologist think of with people, they are like Microsoft, they eat information, they are hungry for it they can't help but swallow what they chew. But true genius as towards mastership of tradecraft.
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Yes. I think this is obvious.
it's not like a textbook or even a non-fiction book. It's more personal. It's also written in a way in plain natural English where it's able to reach a wider audience.
Kinda yes, but it's like a smart person's natural English. The audience may not have a problem with style, but it could still have a problem with the content.
Genius arrives at simple conclusions to complex problems. But genius is to see things as simple if not self-evident.
I'd say the genius sees the things as simple as they are... or as complex as they are. Like, 2 + 2 is 4, but 789458 + 373879 is 1163337 -- you can't put it more simply than that. Einstein found the equation "E=mc²", which is short, but still contains multiplication and exponentiation; he couldn't have reduced it to mere addition.
People often explain things in unnecessarily complicated ways, which is bad. But some complexity is necessary.
Yeah, you can make yourself sound smart if you want to, you can always make yourself sound smarter, everyone can. But why would you?
People typically do that in order to impress (deceive) others. Maybe even themselves.
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The LessWrong community, at least the writers, let's say they're like IQ is higher on average, let's say 110 to be on the safe side of wrong without capturing the data, it's not really important to boast about it as Stephen Hawking would say. But it exists and that's something. However the style of writing here it's not like a textbook or even a non-fiction book. It's more personal. It's also written in a way in plain natural English where it's able to reach a wider audience. Writing in this style avoids sounding or coming off pompous towards individuals of superior intellectual capacity. Making the articles somewhat less concise without devaluing the information itself. There is a humbleness to the writing and yet the style often chosen is narrative with laden jargon. My sneaking suspicion is this is for the reason that these are mainly n = 1 narrative life observations made by high IQ individuals. Where these are observations important to the writers life as untowards but themselves. They are of such importance and value to the individual person that these intelligent and academically inclined individuals feel a passion to share it amongst other individuals who might yet understand and find relatability in the writers curse of knowledge. I suspect it is probably the wider experience of most individuals upon these forums is that their ideas fall upon a dearth of understanding in their personal lives and this is the reason why they feel an urge and passion to share their valuable insights with others. However, yet not to waste their own time by overworking or over developing their lexicon and the linguistical density of their writing as towards other individuals intellectual capabilities of understanding.
An idea of true genius is yet more simple and plain in view to the person themselves then as it appears towards the outside and in post production of story, stardom and fame. Genius arrives at simple conclusions to complex problems. But genius is to see things as simple if not self-evident. It is towards everyone else to create a story of brilliance. The story of brilliance is untowards the capability, capacity and intellectual life as well as eventuation in peronal life narrative circumstance of these individuals themselves. Yeah, you can make yourself sound smart if you want to, you can always make yourself sound smarter, everyone can. But why would you? Everyone who is smart enough already realizes it doesn't actually help you in any material capacity to do so whatsoever. As obviously ideas articulated are self-evident if not obfuscated and gatekept in order to fence off the horde of intellectually jealous and deranged peons. You just see it in plain sight before everybody else and given enough time somebody else would have thought of anyway. It is funny to think that genius is simple because it actually is the case that someone half is intelligent would have stubmled upon the same conclusion yet gone unrecognized for it were they not of some made up story creation of reput brilliance. No one wants to see genius shine. Intelligence agents, they are like how psychologist think of with people, they are like Microsoft, they eat information, they are hungry for it they can't help but swallow what they chew. But true genius as towards mastership of tradecraft.