Silicon Valley guy who feels intellectually maxed out by the cubicle version of Lost is such a funny concept. “this speculative fiction is dealing me sustained HP damage!!”
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Except the household example only works if your household expenses get spent on your kids allowance and stay in the family. You’re right though that revenue is actually the problem and the answe is repeal bush and trump tax cuts
And your kids are paying you to give them allowance later. And kids are buying your bonds and debt. The analogy is awful, worse I think than “it’s a business”
Severance is not a complicated show. They explain exactly what is happening at all times. It’s an emotional character study, and that must be what he finds so taxing: all those feelings.
I was about to say similar. It's not a genuinely perplexing sci fi concept like time travel. It's just ordinary work/life split and alienation of labour externalized for emphasis
Yeah, I'm kind of flabbergasted by the idea that it's particularly complex. I mean, sure, yes, it's more complex than the most basic episodic procedural stuff you'll mostly see on network. But, so far anyway, it's not really any more complex than most serialized mystery shows.
I suppose the fact that there's a lot of background lore tied to the mystery that's still a mystery itself, and that it's a mystery dressed up in a sci-fi package might make it SEEM a lot more complicated than it is.
Also hearing "cubicle version of lost" makes me think it's that same faux complexity that show had. Where there's just that terrible 'mystery box' writing style where it feels difficult to figure out because the writers have scant idea either.
Exactly right. Good science fiction is always about exploring philosophical issues — not about technology or science per se, but about human character and morality. So, naturally these shows will max out Silicon Valley bros’ cognitive capital in short order.
I took a test at some point in high school and it said I was 173, which is what told me that IQ is bullshit because I'm not fucking smarter than Einstein lmao
I had similar results and was trying to make the same point to someone. They kept fixating on "you can't have that score, Einstein's was only x". I KNOW. THAT'S THE POINT. They kept arguing my score with me 😞
Coincidentally, "Severance" has this effect on people because they can't accept the simple central premise which is that modern work is dehumanizing, and that we are all slaves to capital nonconsensually.
I think a year or two ago some startup wanted to make a device that induced lucid dreams so the wearer could be working while home asleep too. It's the closest I've seen, and somehow less humane
Did people boast about their IQ when it came to stuff like Lost and Twin Peaks? My recollection is just of people kinda discussing the show, and going "damn, that was crazy" when something crazy happened.
But maybe we were always like this? I wonder where the High IQ tv thing started.
They're like the Illuminati, Opus Dei and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion all in one. Don't believe me? Just watch the episode they discover Kimberly's eating disorder, then ruined Dana Plato's life because she knew too much
It's the people most certain that they are intellectually superior who are most likely to side with fascism. But they also love to blame everything on those they consider intellectually inferior.
Coworker: is there a difference between being smart and being educated?
Me: oh god yes. go live in the Bay Area for a few years and you’ll meet the dumbest smart people you’ve ever met
"Smart" isn't absolute. I know smart people who will believe things only absolute dumbasses would believe because that's what they want to believe. Apparently it's called Motivated Reasoning. I came up with the idea independently but I called it Purposeful Stupidity. I like my name better.
Add to that, the fact he thinks Tropic Thunder is "dumb" shows he only thinks something is smart when his other bros think so too. I may be wrong, but I'ma guess he was left dumbfounded by K.Dots Superbowl performance.
He can't comprehend it because the central concept - that technologies designed for worker exploitation are bad - is so abhorrent to him that he literally can't conceive of it. It's like the rich people who didn't understand Parasite
Another example that anybody who brags about IQ is actually pretty dumb and probably just had a website lie and pander to them and tell them they're smarter than they are
You're gonna feel like a dunce when you find out I played by 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 rules and outbid you with 162 IQ points, allowing me to grok Severance even faster than you. I'm also gonna start saying stuff like "grok." Because of my IQ.
Um... It's a great sure but like it doesn't cause my brain to buzz, it's not homework, maybe he doesn't understand why they want to escape office life as slaves.
It’s arguable that a MENSA card proves you are a genius, but nobody can doubt it’s an internationally recognised, solid gold proof of you being a twat.
the second season of Silo (painfully slow) ended just as Severance s2 began and it's like my head is spinning there's so much happening. the contrast is absurd
Every single person I have ever met who claimed to have an IQ several deviations above the mean has been noticeably more stupid and annoying than the average person.
"They have different personas inside and outside work and the two personas don't know anything about each other".
"Holy fuck only true geniuses can understand this"
I got this college friend on Facebook who often just casually mentions that he is a member of Mensa in the most unnecessary fucking posts. This guy might have him topped though.
Lol. I remember that but forgot it was this guy. He was also talking about how Frankly, he didn't think Kamala was very intelligent all election. Motherfucker was stumped by The Fablemans
If only their crappy techbro podcast were instead devoted to making them watch any tv show they’ve never seen with a narrative thrust more complex than Who’s the Boss? I’d bookmark that podcast for sure
Mostly because IQ tests can only measure how similar someone's thought processes are to the test maker and not, y'know, actual intelligence. Which is why it's illegal to give black school children IQ tests in California; the tests are innately racist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_P._v._Riles
Because smart people realize intelligence is complicated, but some arrogant dumb people don't want to work to become smart they just wanna be told they are already smart and then lord over others
aren't IQ tests measured relative to age, so in theory, a four year old who can read would score higher at age four than their age cohort peers? a lot of "high IQ" braggers were shut-ins and more tutored and had read more than their peers... when they were ten. that's what it was developed to test!
guaranteed every one of these guys did a website test that lies and tells you you're a genius because they know that's what people want to hear and they're trying to sell something / advertise something
There isn’t even a “real test,” there’s a handful of fairly common ones and dozens of others. All have different criteria and one subject’s score can vary by 30 points or more between them, there’s no real way to compile the data either except averaging the scores.
There are accepted tests for where IQ matters. I took the MENSA test after some tests at school and they were pretty similar (and I didn't get in). But MENSA requires 145 on their test. Einstein was 162 on a similar test. I'm always dubious about anyone claiming over 140...
IQ rarely matters and we only did ours as a benchmark for my teacher's research project that was on IQ vs grade attainment. But there are so many online tests that don't test anything like IQ and then give scores of 180 to anyone vaguely clever it means nothing in the real world.
Yeah there are like cognitive tests that have diagnostic value and can show some specific strengths and weaknesses but in terms of general intelligence: no. These nerds think they rolled a 17 INT while being openly dim
Cognition tests are a bit different, I went through a battery of those a few years back when I had a brief aphasic episode and spent a couple days under observation. Turned out I was fine but it was scary as hell.
Back in 02, I took the Mensa test and passed. Several years ago, they offered to send us our scores. My test turned out to have been two different tests, on which I got wildly different scores. My impression from the test itself was that it tests for two things; working memory and being able 1/
I'm not leaving the org at this point bc a lot of my favorite friends are there, but omg so many absolute morons in the high-IQ org too. So. Many. Whatever we were tested for, it wasn't intelligence.
True story: Stephen Hawking was once asked what his IQ was and he said, "people who boast about their IQ are losers". Not quite even paraphrasing that. The very stereotype of the smartest person of the modern era called 'em all losers. King.
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Pretending he had a family and people he loved, would he feel safe with all of them riding in a vehicle arbitrarily stripped of 10-35% of its parts?
Also sometimes households choose to increase income. If only there was some way to do that!
He is a good example of how someone with no shame or morals can continue to fail upwards.
I only watch the clouds going by.
But maybe we were always like this? I wonder where the High IQ tv thing started.
He said, cleverly suggesting his great intelligence very cleverly and subtly.
What he really wants to watch is Reacher.
Me: oh god yes. go live in the Bay Area for a few years and you’ll meet the dumbest smart people you’ve ever met
because apparently, RFK Jr has it..
So. About 80
mmm
brain hurt
i failed. 😞
Right?
(I adore House of Leaves it IS my Necronomicon)
Ohh, he left out a decimal point.
Per use!
"Holy fuck only true geniuses can understand this"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FMWza0u4Jk
or catherine doing yellowface
And they're such marks they totally bought it
I'm not leaving the org at this point bc a lot of my favorite friends are there, but omg so many absolute morons in the high-IQ org too. So. Many. Whatever we were tested for, it wasn't intelligence.
I wonder what the lesson is there
But even if we were in a magical world where you could measure intelligence, Jason is someone who would lie about his results.
It's wild that they are used at all really.
Which means MESS WITH HIM.
"Right? Such a brilliant deconstruction of Paul's letter to the Corinthians."
"The influence of Italo Calvino is blinding."