LW is basically a high-IQ club. People with abnormally high IQ get used to being smarter than most around them—and specifically get used to winning arguments, if not by superior knowledge than by superior logic and rhetoric.
Uhhhh but the whole point of LW is that “argument-winning power” is a very different thing from “entangling-yourself-with-reality power”, which is precisely why you can have a very high IQ and still need to learn all kinds of domains, like rationality, or scuba diving, or mathematics.
If you’re, say, in the top 1% of the population (by IQ), 99% of the people are not as smart as you. That’s enough to make you conceited and contentious :-)
Yes, but that’s called being an arrogant asshole, and I personally prefer to do as little of it as possible, especially because I know it’s the easiest bad habit for me to fall into and one of the worst for my ability to get along with others, which is very much something I care about.
An Arrogant People’s Club is a very bad thing to consider having.
I think the description is correct for high-IQ clubs, by virtue of the norms those groups inform. Many high-IQ people who don’t belong to those groups learn different social norms, and thus act differently.
Uhhhh but the whole point of LW is that “argument-winning power” is a very different thing from “entangling-yourself-with-reality power”, which is precisely why you can have a very high IQ and still need to learn all kinds of domains, like rationality, or scuba diving, or mathematics.
Yes, but that’s called being an arrogant asshole, and I personally prefer to do as little of it as possible, especially because I know it’s the easiest bad habit for me to fall into and one of the worst for my ability to get along with others, which is very much something I care about.
An Arrogant People’s Club is a very bad thing to consider having.
I was being descriptive, not normative. Do you think the description is incorrect?
I think the description is correct for high-IQ clubs, by virtue of the norms those groups inform. Many high-IQ people who don’t belong to those groups learn different social norms, and thus act differently.