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Shouldn't high intelligence also enable you to solve this problem? Winning is what rationalists do, and all that.
Higher IQ can allow you to figure out faster which things to learn to fit in with others, but you still have to put in the time & effort to learn those things, and then cultivate the corresponding social habits.
Faster than lower IQ people? Should be, but the scenario being discussed is the opposite: the highly intelligent doing far worse than the rest. For how the highly intelligent should perform at social skills, see, for example, Feynman. If someone of high intelligence is not outperforming those of lower intelligence, it does not make much sense to blame the intelligence.
Oh, I see what you mean now. Didn't originally realize your question was rhetorical so I didn't infer what you were getting at.