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Comment author: Trevor_Blake 04 August 2012 06:05:56PM 7 points [-]

People at the upper end of the IQ spectrum get lonely for someone smarter to talk to. It's an emotional need for an intellectual peer.

Comment author: David_Gerard 08 August 2012 09:13:53AM 1 point [-]

Lots of really smart people here is something I find very attractive about LW.

(Of course, smart and stupid are orthogonal, and no-one does stupid quite as amazingly as really smart people.)

Comment author: Arkanj3l 16 August 2012 01:12:24AM 0 points [-]

That doesn't privilege FAI, methinks, and seems too charitable as an after-the-fact explanation with not so much as a survey.

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