• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    parallels with Idiocracy

    Bro, life’s been like that for some people, for forever.

    A 145 IQ isn’t that crazy, like 1 in 1200 people. About the same frequency as someone transitioning.

    But an intellectual deficiency is defined as 30 points lower than frame of reference, which is normally 100.

    For someone at 145, about 84% of humanity is at least 30 points lower. And in your day to day life, you’re not gonna run into that other 16% often

    So if one of them was the reference point, like Not Sure in Idiocracy, then this is already idiocracy.

    “Ignorance is bliss” isn’t just a saying, being intelligent fucking sucks.

    • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Title of first album recorded with high school band was about the suffering of not being ignorant (astronomical low odds but don’t want to name it and dox myself)

      I’m already explaining it to my neurodivergent kid that the world isnt made for your brain AND the intelligence gap will alienate you

      My first sales manager, when I left (which he sensed was) for a competitor told me not to go down the rabbit hole with weirdness in the open, only so as not to alienate myself. Nothing wrong with me, but people suck.