IQ gains

[Anonymous No.17080127]

What is the one work/writer that you have read where once you put them down you thought, "Okay, whoa, I seriously feel much smarter having read that. I'm grateful I read that because I am now a more thoughtful person." kind of feel?

What book/author has had a lasting intellect impact on you?

[Anonymous No.17080151]

>>17080127
infinite jest

[Anonymous No.17080156]

"IQ is largely pseudoscience" by Nicholas Nassim Taleb

[Anonymous No.17080184]

After reading Plato and Kant

[Anonymous No.17080195]

[Anonymous No.17080244]

>>17080127
The first critique, although it was more of a gradual thing

[Anonymous No.17080273]

>>17080127
Ecclesiastes

[Anonymous No.17080314]

>>17080127
The world as will and representation. I read it without prior understanding of Kant because my dad had it sitting on his shelf lmao.

[Anonymous No.17080334]

>>17080314
This

[Anonymous No.17080351]

>>17080127
Wheelocks Latin

[Anonymous No.17080375]

>>17080151

[Anonymous No.17080416]

>>17080127
Is this chart supposed to represent merely knowing about things or actually being a believer of those things? Mandela effect is definitely reddit. There seems to be a mixture of real world events like JFK, and ontological proposals, like Earth being a square or an ice ball. These three theories should be in reddit. Things like synchroncity and subliminal messages should be at least in schizo, because for one to believe them they would not act like a normal person, or participate in the same normal life like everyone else. In the 8th stage, everything listed is basically inconsequential.

[Anonymous No.17080429]

>>17080416
Psychological priming exists but the effect is mild

[Anonymous No.17080444]

>>17080429
Who performs the programming? I'm assuming you're referring to synchronicity.

[Anonymous No.17080453]

Crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.17080592]

>>17080195
As someone who's done amateur boxing and has undergone extensive training to even be mediocre (which I am) I can safely say that even a mediocre boxer is still a deadly threat to most normal people walking around day to day. With that in mind you'll often see that serious boxers of any caliber will go out of their way to avoid a fight in real life, both to save their hapless would-be victim, and to save themselves from an almost guaranteed murder charge.
With all of that said every time I see this image I want to punch this man in the face as hard as I can as many times as I can until everything above his clavicle is a fine red paste spackled with bone.
Like there's a part of me that wants to know where this guy lives so that I can actively avoid him because I know, if I were in a situation where he was in my presence, that as soon as he smacked his faggy lips and said, in his whiny, nasal voice, "because uuuhhhh, racism," I wouldn't be able to stop myself. I just wouldn't be able to stop what I can and would do to him and it genuinely scares me. And even if it were at some party and all of his equally faggy, testosterone-deprived friends grabbed at me and kicked me, they wouldn't be able to get me off his body until every neuron of his brain was cold and disconnected in a pudding that was once his brain. Only then would I allow them to feebly pull me from his corpse.

[Anonymous No.17080596]

>>17080375
filtered

[Anonymous No.17080639]

>>17080592
the most based post on /lit/

[Anonymous No.17080713]

>>17080127
>>17080416
the chart is dogshit

[Anonymous No.17081700]

>>17080592
based and boxer-pilled

[Anonymous No.17081732]

>>17080713
yeah losers that wasted their lives

[Anonymous No.17081872]

>>17080127
Plato

[Anonymous No.17082093]

>>17080127
epstein and cia crack are reddit tier

[Anonymous No.17082099]

>>17080127
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.17082137]

>>17080592
Basado

[Anonymous No.17082179]

>>17080592
I aspire to obtain this level of based.

[Anonymous No.17082194]

>>17080127
nyc runescape theory?

[Anonymous No.17082211]

>>17082194
I was about to go to sleep, but I'm glad someone inquired on this particular bit of autism. If I recall correctly, it has to do with this one area in Runescape called NYC. It was described as a hollow debug land, and somehow related to the stupid "internet is fake" theory. I wouldn't worry about it :)

[Anonymous No.17082318]

>>17080127
>There are 7 nations the USA will refuse to attack
I already know the first one care to tell me the other six?

[Anonymous No.17082477]

>>17080151
kek

[Anonymous No.17082523]

>>17080127
>Corporations rule the world

But this is literally Michael Moore tier.

[Anonymous No.17082554]

>IQ gains
IQ is a scam

[Anonymous No.17082570]

I searched "ai surprises" and my browser broke, is it over bros.

[Anonymous No.17082626]

>>17080127

There is none
Every time I read something like this I realize I've only become further burdened by it's dark knowledge, a burden which one day will leave me a broken hollow shell yet I continue on...

[Anonymous No.17082645]

I feel like "getting smarter" is a much slower, gradual process that you can't connect it to the reading of a single book. However I think I had some sort of eye opening moments reading Schopenhauer.

[Anonymous No.17082651]

>>17082554
How so?

[Anonymous No.17083130]

>>17080156
This

[Anonymous No.17083210]

>>17080127
>IQ
Lol. What a meme

[Anonymous No.17083251]

>>17080127
Kant and Proust are the only two I think ever gave me that feeling, they both made my mind feel like it had been cleared and reordered into something more categorically articulate and widely associative.

[Anonymous No.17083304]

>>17080592
That guy would destroy you.

[Anonymous No.17083308]

>>17082651
Because it correlates at a rate of 0.3(the lowest possible correlation to still technically be a weak correlation)to wider success. Because intelligence is polygenetic.
Because there are too many variables in every massive test grouping, because hard work is the key to gaining knowledge even for naturally gifted people.

[Anonymous No.17083336]

>>17082645
I read Schopenhauer’s collected essays over the course of a summer while I was painting houses at 19. The only reason I picked it up was because my Dad had a copy filled with his notes written in the margins. I don’t know if it made me smarter so much as it made me more aware of how nuanced the thoughts of legitimately intelligent people are. The clarity of his writing made me realize how trash a lot of my education was. It made it seem like everyone else was tripping over their words.

[Anonymous No.17083716]

>>17080127
>captcha = AI training

its literally true and no-one hides it. How the fuck is something out of a Tom Scott video level 5?

[Anonymous No.17083861]

>>17083308
>>17082651
Taleb's example is still really good: If there are strong cofactors between compared populations, causal relationships are extremely difficult to establish, even with strong correlation and seemingly obvious justification. If you give a sample of 10 people, 3 of whom are braindead, an IQ test and then a skill test, IQ will positively correlate with skill regardless of the performance of the 7 healthy people because no matter the healthy persons do, the braindead people will score 0 on both tests.

Obviously some persons are more intelligent than others. I even believe that some races as a whole are more intelligent than others, it's obvious just from looking at their basic anatomy that human brain structure is not identical among different subpopulations or even within the same subpopulation. But IQ is a poor measure of this, and doesn't necessarily reflect real performance. Even if you're intellectually stupid, being wise enough to execute plans properly can lead to much higher performance, and ridiculous stubbornness has gotten a lot of people to finish lines "beyond" their ability.

[Anonymous No.17083876]

>>17083861
The differences in outcome between people with 100IQ and 140IQ(eg in math or physics programs) are not attributable to brain damaged people skewing the results, since the 100IQ people are of course not brain-dead.

[Anonymous No.17083896]

>>17083876
You missed the point. Brain damage is just an example to illustrate the phenomenon. What happens if the people who perform poorly in math or physics are instead just very lazy? They're also not going to perform well on IQ tests, and they're not going to seek out the kind of activities that will improve cognition.

[Anonymous No.17083922]

>>17083896
Even if IQ measures in part a kind of intellectual laziness it would still be useful. It might be a poor indicator but it's still quite good.

[Anonymous No.17083944]

>>17083896
I mean if it were that we'd still be getting useful information, since the two would operate in effect rather similarly. I don't believe I have missed the point though about Taleb's specific brain-dead argument, I think it is refuted by the differences between people who are not brain-dead.

[Anonymous No.17083993]

Heidegger and Deleuze have permanently changed how I interpret reality. Currently reading Hegel and I am certain that this will permanently give myself brain damage.

[Anonymous No.17084014]

>>17080592
The basedboy fears the boxer anon

[Anonymous No.17084037]

Any of Milnor’s orange books desu

[Anonymous No.17084115]

>>17082318
1. Israel (yes!)
2. Vatican (the black pope is in charge of the US)
3. UK (world central of masonry)
4. Iran (only protected by the divine blessing of Allah (swt) until the Last Imam returns together with the Mahdi)
5. Switzerland (needed for money laundering)
6. Canada
7. Finland (due to its possession of hyperborean WMDs excavated during WWII below Helsinki by the Ahnenerbe, the V2 was based on this)

[Anonymous No.17084468]

>>17080592
Holy smokes!!!!!

[Anonymous No.17084713]

>>17084115
>7. Finland (due to its possession of hyperborean WMDs excavated during WWII below Helsinki by the Ahnenerbe, the V2 was based on this)
I would like to read about this even if it's made up. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.17084768]

>>17084115
>>17084713
Saudi Arabia is right there with israel and you know it

[Anonymous No.17084786]

>>17080127
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Anonymous No.17084833]

[Anonymous No.17084917]

>>17080195

[Anonymous No.17085313]

>>17082645
>>17083336
is schopenhauer fine to read in translation? i haven't got much german yet. i haven't read anything outside of kant's ethics either, is an understanding of kant necessary for schopenhauer?

[Anonymous No.17085673]

>>17080592
hello, based department? we got another one.

[Anonymous No.17085895]

>>17080453
came here to post this

[Anonymous No.17086092]

>>17084713
Look up hyperborea, it’s a schizo humanity origins theory popular in Russia

[Anonymous No.17087246]

>>17082318

>1200 acres?!?
>What do you need with 600 acres?!?

[Anonymous No.17088914]

>>17080151
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.17089356]

>>17080127
What is the happy red crocodile?

[Anonymous No.17089652]

>>17080592
>"uhh because racism"
>anon goes to punch
>soi ducks punch and shoots for double leg takedown
>picks up anon and smashes his head against the floor
>anon goes into a coma or dies

[Anonymous No.17089671]

>>17084115
Masonry is based though

[Anonymous No.17089674]

>>17080592
As someone who finds his face irritating as well, you are perhaps the most embrassing person on this site, even if you do have the training you say you do.

[Anonymous No.17089778]

>>17080592
sounds like a Lil Ugly Mane rap lyric fr

[Anonymous No.17089796]

>>17080127
In stage 8, you forgot to say all those strawmen FBI agents fallguys in the upper normie stages were actually a smoke screen to distract and filter the real killer

and that Olympic 300m shooting bronze medalist Lev Wein((stein)) actually pulled the trigger

[Anonymous No.17089800]

>>17089356
>he doesn't know

[Anonymous No.17089868]

>>17083336
>how nuanced the thoughts of legitimately intelligent people are
The World as Will and Representation moved me to literal tears. To this day, it has been the only book that has done so. I owe so much to him. What I’d give to spend a day with that man.

[Anonymous No.17089964]

>>17083308
How many doctors and engineers have 80IQ then?

[Anonymous No.17091193]

[Anonymous No.17091691]

>>17080592
Based

[Anonymous No.17091930]

>>17080151
Critique of Pure reason Book 1 and 2, Grundlagen der Logik, Grundlagen der Mathematik, Tractatus logico-philosophicus, Philosophical investigations.
Wish I had read them in that order, but it isn't that bad as is

[Anonymous No.17091945]

my fucking diary you stupid piece of shit, it always has been my diary and it will never not be my diary

[Anonymous No.17091967]

>>17089868
>moved me to literal tears
volume one book four? me too

[Anonymous No.17092634]

>>17089964
I think it's precisely because of that point that IQ is only useful to assess extreme cases such as sub-80 IQ. If you have an IQ above 100 then everything goes

[Anonymous No.17092666]

>>17080592
Nice.

[Anonymous No.17092908]

>>17084115
The Mahdi is the Last Imam for Shias and will return with Jesus

[Anonymous No.17092948]

>>17080127
textbooks

[Anonymous No.17092962]

>>17080127
Hey, this is my thread! I forgot this was still up

[Anonymous No.17093045]

sup

[Anonymous No.17094367]

>>17091967
Yes, his conception of the Will was a more precise articulation of all the conclusions I had come to prior. It made me feel a little less alone in the world.

[Anonymous No.17094857]

>>17089652
>OP is floored
>blood dampens his brown pajeet skin
>beer guy tweets 'he only did what he did because of white supremacy...'