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Comment author: Lumifer 10 September 2015 02:45:47PM 2 points [-]

Also, many highly intelligent people around me did things that I now see as obviously irrational (things like mentioned in this article), and used them as a signal for high intelligence.

Sometimes it's rational to value signaling your intelligence more than coming up with the right answer to an inconsequential question :-)

Your usual kitchen debate about politics is predominantly about signaling (both tribal identity and facility at arguing).

Comment author: Viliam 10 September 2015 08:12:57PM *  3 points [-]

It's just... people who cannot stop signalling, even when you tell them: "look, I see that you are signalling, but now please stop doing that for a minute and let's talk seriously"... annoy me a lot.

(Yeah, it would be easy to say that what I want is also signalling, just of a different kind. Whatever. Either way, I hate that kind of signalling.)

Comment author: Lumifer 10 September 2015 08:44:27PM 4 points [-]

even when you tell them

The ability to easily go meta -- that is, stop and take a look at yourself "from the outside" is not common, probably more rare than "just" high intelligence.