@scion_x_ I was once a coder. COBOL. I just used SuperGrok to vibe code an HTML page w/ JSON+Base64 encoded vendor data. Posted it to a 1982 style IBM PCjr retro page. It's in use all over the world. Took me two hours, and I had to learn EVERYTHING. Last quote was $53,500 from a developer.
@SomeBitchIIKnow I learned the extent of my sister’s genealogy obsession after her untimely departure. I learned many things about our family. I also learned many “surprising” things about our family. In short, an explanation for my quizzical 23andMe “distant relatives.”
@NoLimitGains Dot Com era. Then lost it. Then 2003, then lost it in 2008. Then 2010, now 10x being a thoughtful and conservative macroeconomic observant investor.
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down.
It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems.
A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means:
Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad."
Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language.
Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed.
Both walk away frustrated.
Both have wasted each others time.
@SomeBitchIIKnow I go into a storage facility in Utah to rent a unit. No human at all. A kiosk wakes up. Rejeesh from India on a flat screen happily wants to help me at fifty cents an hour. No min wage violation. It's coming for all customer service. Hopefully they don't install the smell.