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Have you ever met or heard of people with very high intelligence? (lemmy.world)

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In my case, I heard about a man with an IQ of 350+, but for some reason he left the country in an unknown direction with his wife and children. Lived like an ordinary person, did not stand out in any way, worked at an ordinary job, I don't remember which one, but definitely not a teacher, It was a manual profession.

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[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

Read Douglas Hofstadter's book "Godel Escher Bach" & be stunned at what high-intelligence can do..

Him discussing anything with me would be like me trying to have intelligent-discussion with a waterlogged & frozen tree-stump.

after understanding that finally I understood why they like MENSA, to find others to discuss-at-their-level-with.

( after my 2nd brain-injury, I was measured to qualify for them, but after my 3rd brain-injury, I can't imagine being quick-enough to qualify for them, & don't like exclusive-clubs anyways, as they nearly-always turn into class-based-validity clubs.

Brain-injury's taught me things that high-IQ wouldn't have, though, so that's cool. )

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[-] zout@fedia.io 3 points 7 hours ago

I was a member of Mensa for a few years, tbh most of the active members are insufferable.

[-] HobbitFoot 1 points 48 minutes ago

The problem with MENSA is that you're dealing with intelligent people who have no better claim to intelligence than being in MENSA.

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