J_Taylor comments on Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: J_Taylor 06 September 2012 02:53:30AM *  0 points [-]

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:

later suspected to be a psychopath by gwern and shminux

is almost a complete non sequitur, apropos of nothing.

Comment author: Epiphany 06 September 2012 03:29:42AM *  1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 September 2012 03:42:11AM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: J_Taylor 06 September 2012 03:53:56AM 2 points [-]

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:

Either gwern or shminux either publicly suspected or pretended to suspect OrphanWilde of being a sociopath.

? If so, could you please post a hyperlink?

Comment author: CCC 06 September 2012 07:44:16AM 0 points [-]

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.