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If gwern suspected OrphanWilde of being a sociopath, surely he would have made a PredictionBook post.
But seriously, I've read the posts I think you are talking about. Nobody has such suspicions.
OrphanWilde was only doing an experiment. I didn't mean to say those guys were serious about their accusations. They behaved that way in the context of the experiment. Most likely they do know better than to take the experiment literally. I realize this. (:
I hate pointing out the obvious, but I guess I have to now. edits my post
I apologize for my lack of explicitness.
Here gwern states that someone possessing transcendent charm is not sufficient evidence for one to conclude that they possess a 200+ IQ. (He mentions other possibilities of them having a "mere" 140+ IQ or them being a psychopath.)
Here gwern states that the world contains more psychopaths than geniuses.
Here is a well-done ramble about the overlap between psychopathy and genius.
I cannot find any post by schminux that would explain why you think he was pretending to accuse OrphanWilde of being a psychopath.
Now to clarify: I am holding that gwern and schminux never publicly suspected OrphanWilde of being a psychopath. I am further holding that gwern and schminux never publicly pretended to suspect OrphanWilde of being a psychopath. These events did not occur, nor did events resembling them occur. Thus, this:
is almost a complete non sequitur, apropos of nothing.
You can't find those because some wonderfully helpful person decided to hide my post. Search for "comment score below threshold" and look inside of there for "psychopath".
Ctrl-F is helpful if you didn't know about it.
There's likely no single individual involved, wonderfully helpful or otherwise. If a comment dropped below the default display threshold, it's probably because three more people operating independently downvoted the comment than upvoted it.
Considering that the posts I linked to were descendents of your post (I assume you were referring to this one?), it would be safe for you to assume that I had read it. (I also do not filter posts by karma value.)
Is there, in fact, a post that you think would support the claim:
? If so, could you please post a hyperlink?
I can't be certain, but it's possible that the post which led to shminux' inclusion on that list was this one - in which shminux quoted gwerm's conclusion that a gifted conversationalist is at least as likely to be a psychopath as a genius.