>>24718806
Ulysses and GR are pretty hard, IJ is not—it's just very long. Mostly, it's just entertaining, hilarious, and has some of the best characterization you'll ever read.

who are you talking to?

>>24718806
I speak 3 languages but I read nothing but smut and self help books. Not including my great formative influences of existential philosophy and ASOIAF.

>>24718819
What’s your IQ?

>>24718821
75

>>24718824
What’s your snap?

>>24718815
Anons here frequently hallucinate conversations based on previous squabbles they had years ago. They never really get over it, so they make these threads in hopes that the specific anon they were talking to returns.

>>24718830
I don’t know what that is

>>24718834
Nvrm I thought you were a woman

>>24718819
You are literally me. This might be the archetype of an average /lit/ anon, so no wonder this board is shit.

>>24718806
They wrote long books because thats needed to bridge the gap between intelligence and mass idiocy. When you have IQ societies like Rome or Catholic schools you see them tend toward fragmentation, abridgement, and censorship (which is a good thing!) Same thing in tech when it wasn't full of 93 IQ people: Keep it simple stupid.

>>24718806
144 is my high score on shitty internet tests. I think 142 verbal 148 spatial or something. Probably mid 120s IRL.

Tolkein >>> Joyce btw

>>24718815
Me

>>24720091
Also speak English Spanish some Gothic some Lithuanian and can read 80% of any romance language other than Romansch and Romanian.

>>24718806
Ima retard

>>24720092
Weirdly anti-Romanian but ok, Mr gipsy. I totally believe you (lol)

>>24720096
I just can't pattern match the vocabulary against what I know from Spanish and Latin. I suppose French is harder too, in between Italian and Romanian. I love the Romanian people and I hope they reunify with Moldova soon.

IQ really doesn't matter
>but it gets me off
Good for you

>>24720478
That is just what people say about size

>>24718806
How should I know? Do people actually pay for tests so they can tell each other about their IQ:s? We did the norwegian mensa thing online in 8th or 9th grade. I maxed it out, don't remember what the number was. Same thing for some other kind of test we were made to do in high school. When I was tested for conscription I finished the intelligence test 10 minutes before anyone else and the recruiter spent some time begging me to come back (unlike the others) despite having no military virtues and being clearly unreliable and asocial. However I am still an incompetent and ignorant retard, with no intellectual achievements of any kind and no understanding of the world but only some likely proofs of above-average pattern recognition. I only speak my native language and english, and I do so poorly, which is for lack of social interaction.

I believe it is legitimate to feel smart for reading and considering complicated works. It's thought exercise, and, well, just do it and you'll feel and understand what they're referring to, even if you hate the arrogance these people seem to have. Even overview-type pop philosophy seems decent for raising questions and making people think about them, which while probably not improving your intuituon, do make you better at grasping and interacting with such problems and if you arrive at any kind of answer it gives you ideas to base further thinking on. It's pretty great. Though that's just personal experience and I am a vain and arrogant person.

>>24721523
>I am still an incompetent and ignorant retard, with no intellectual achievements of any kind and no understanding of the world

This is all you needed to post


The left can’t meme

>>24721536
Well sure, I guess it's mucho texto for a twitter reply. I wanted to share my sentiment on what op apparently cared enough about to create a thread on but I'm a bit to sleepless to organize what I say further than this

>>24720091
>142 verbal iq
>Tolkein
I to am bigh genos.

Is this the midwit thread?

>>24721523
IQ is important and there's a general correlation between it and income, even for low skilled labor. But people here tend to overrate it. I think it's to do with a widespread dissatisfaction with life. If you feel like you're not where you should be, it's easy to soothe your pain by reminding yourself you have some intrinsic quality that makes you superior.

>However I am still an incompetent and ignorant retard, with no intellectual achievements of any kind
To be fair, this is most high IQ people. Even when you factor out the severely autistic cases who have a high IQ but no ability to apply it meaningfully, there are still plenty of literal geniuses doing meme jobs like redesigning Amazon's recommendation algorithm to get a marginal increase in purchases. That's not to mention the sheer number of graduates from top universities that go into analyst roles or consultancy. Even in the best case scenario, where a genius becomes some kind of academic that can do research all day, their career is often totally negligible.

>>24718806
Rat race was invented for retarded boomers

Correct me if I'm wrong but IQ is a term that was Invented by psychologists and psychology is an art, not a science, learning languages doesn't necessarily prove that someone is very smart, if you want to be technically proficient at something, whether it's physics, CS, or any domain of science, English is the only language you need, most if not every major work of philosophy has been translated into English, so there's an opportunity cost, every hour you spend learning a language is an hour you won't spend learning math or reading philosophy

for me, serial language learners are people who can't move on from a hobby, they can't think of a paradigm shift, but I'm still somewhat interested in learning another language

>>24718806
>I speak 32 languages but I can’t do math

>>24718812
Ulysses isn’t very hard you just need an annotated version. Nobody in this day who wasn’t given a classical education will understand the symbolism of the rolling green hillside and Persephone or some such being an obscure reference being a symbol for Irish persecution by the English in whichever one of the 90 times it happened. Now finnegans wake, that shit makes me feel borderline retarded.

>>24721616
about 13 necked already

>>24721635
High IQ correlates with higher income but above a certain threshold it actually looses a lot of correlation and only becomes income correlation of midwits. That is because once people pass a certain threshold of IQ they alienate regular people, or feel alienated by them, and charisma and networking are the most important qualities when it comes to life success. Even Napoleon who was a complete social aspie with women and regular people was only hugely successful because he had enormous charisma and networking skills when it came to dealing with other soldiers; without that he would never have been able to put his brain to use

>>24723031
I think it might be due to the fact that midwits might be more willing to take risks, and they are more likely to think of themselves as hyper intelligent people who, if they tried could found a successful startup, even if the vast majority of startups fail, whereas a smart person would be risk averse

an intelligent person might be obsessed over scientific knowledge and how they can help achieve technological progress, but someone of average intelligence is more worried about the money

Because the idea of having a mansion stimulates their brain more than the idea of discovering scientific truths

>>24723098
The idea that intelligence makes you risk-adverse is incorrect, it might you more risk sensitive though. As someone who plays poker for a living, I find that those who are most risk adverse are midwits, because they don’t have the IQ necessary to realize when taking a risk is mathematically favorable. People take imbecile risks are worse of course, but overtime they lose even if by statistically necessity a minority of them do very well dor a time. Eventually the odds catch up.

Curiosity as you said is associated with intelligence but it also correlates with openness to take risks, as extreme risk-aversion leads to hostility toward discovery and newness (neophobia).

>>24723189
Live or online? I've long entertained the idea of walking away from everything and just grinding away at my laptop for rent instead, but I've felt that's probably delusional regarding my own abilites

>>24723312
Online, multitabling.

>>24721635
>it's easy to soothe your pain by reminding yourself you have some intrinsic quality that makes you superior.
Tbh I think it would do the opposite. Imagine knowing you're about as smart as einstein and you're wasting your intelligence on cooming, vidya, and a dead end job. Much bleaker than being a midwit

>>24723031
> looses
The big IQ thread everyone. On the literature board.