On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 09:44:03AM +0000, Alaric Snell-Pym via Silklist wrote:
I am also suspicious of the notion that these people are high IQ people. Their actions are often... shortsighted, hardly a five-dimensional chess strategy. I suspect they've gained a position of power mainly through luck combined with *some* intelligence to exploit it, but the luck is the dominant factor;
On this topic I always reference this talk by Darius Kazemi, where he says everything one needs to know without mentioning it explicitly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw Cheers, -- José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org
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