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Serious question:
What books do people with extraordinarily high IQs read?

>> No.16865900

ask mensa.

>> No.16865903
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This and other postgrad math books.

>> No.16865906

>>16865889
Most of them won't read anything but text books

>> No.16865913

>>16865889
IQ tests ain't scientific in any regard.

>> No.16865926

>>16865889
Genre fiction and comic books

>> No.16865935

>>16865889
The classics.

>> No.16865947

>>16865889
Rick and Morty

>> No.16865959

>>16865889
my posts

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Be honest, do you guys take this guy or other proclaimed "smartest person ever" seriously? Do you hold them in higher regard than say Plato, Kant, Newton or Einstein?

>> No.16865982

>>16865979
Yes.

IQ is everything.

>> No.16865990

>>16865979
Smartest is Aristotle and it's not even close

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>>16865903
This guy gets it.

>> No.16866005

>>16865889
My friend has an IQ of 156 , and reads Eragon and fantasy novels, but he also is an engineer, so I'm going to have to subtract 2 standard deviations.

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>>16865979
>Do you hold them in higher regard than say Plato, Kant, Newton or Einstein?
Lol no, they may be the smartest currently, and maybe only in plain terms of memory capability if we wish to get into the shaky ground of sub-diving intelligences or parts to intelligence, but people like Plato, Newton or Kant are WAAY more intelligent and obviously greater than these modern iq champions. There is no point in approaching exactness about what makes them greater, lest we approach the sacrilege of ignorance to their immortal greatness.

I bow before Beethoven, not an Asian who can do math very fast.

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>>16865982
I honestly think even mediocre academics are smarter than "Highest IQ ever" individuals. So even comparing them to the greats is hubris

>> No.16866046

>>16865889
>What books do people with extraordinarily high IQs read?
Anything, really. Not all of them are reading textbooks.

>> No.16866058

>>16866044
>academics are smart
Lmao at your retardation

>> No.16866071

>>16866044
Academics are high functioning psychopaths, not geniuses from the same echelons as Kant and Bach. Academic circles are completely pozzed with neuroticism because "publish or perish".