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Think Hitler or Stalin was high IQ? Politically savvy maybe but not geniuses…

He confuses being incredibly brutal with being incredibly bright. The two rarely go together.

Sure history obviously guided by an invisible hand mostly influenced by takes and vibes.

He never got over being wrong, so Wrong in 2016

You can tell he's a braindead redditor because he thinks IQ=intelligence

Anyone who starts a sentence with 'Like' is functionally illiterate.

There is always more to know And #EveryDayIsASchoolDay or should be

Imagine living in this world and believing that we're here because the bad people who get power are smart, and not mostly nepo-brain con men blinded by hubris and compliments from the people they pay to agree with them

That fact people continue to give that gambling addict any attention is beyond me.

Nate Silver, still living off that one time he hit the 14 team political parlay in 2008, basically has just middled everything since and yet we keep feeding the beast

Anyone who speaks about IQ scores is dumb. They’re a damn simpleton

Extremism prevention. Good info though maybe too late. See samples of doc below. You may want to download before it too disappears.

And you've read Atlas Shrugged and were amazed by how perfectly it captured your own situation.

Even if the world burns, let's at least be thankful for the bumper crop of self-anointed geniuses this season.

He’s simping for Trump and Musk? Figures. Quantoids with no understanding of the humanities.

Rumor has it Elon’s IQ is about 110. Trump’s is less than that. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Teenagers know everything. We all thought it at that age but most of us weren't in a position to do any harm or had adults around to gently redirect us. Reminds me of 'Lord of the Flies' with no adult supervision to moderate behaviours. Terrifying to watch.

Regards history I had my money on weather.

Also its funny how they use "high agency" as if its a coherent, consistent trait. Like 'this planer with large long term goals' and 'delusional weirdo with no understanding' can both be 'high agency' but that does not make them similar.

Some of the most famous historical figures are known to not be good people. Therefore, if I am not a good person, I should have a better chance of changing history. It's really a shame we don't teach these 'smart kids' more logic.

Great Man theory has thoroughly permeated pop history, and most people are not in touch with academic history at all. Many functioning adults learn history mostly from the History channel, authors like Ron Chernow, or YouTube/Tiktok. Silver clearly in shock that conventional wisdom is incorrect.

He sounds brilliant the way he starts his sentence/question with "Like"

This from the guy Peter Thiel bought. Irony is broken.

I'm 37 I got placed into the gifted kids class when I was 11 and I will order the rest of my life on this single thing having nothing else to show for it.

History is not just major events. Think of the highly intelligent, hard working, persevering, cautious people who have changed human life: Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Graham Bell, Francisca Okeke, you add who you want: there are so many more. Unshowy but so useful in everyday life.

i know over 9000 grenade lineups in counter-strike. otherwise i'm a jill of all skills.

As someone who was a piece of shit 16yo in every advanced class I could find, this takes the cake.

Yes! But, if you've heard of them and they were philosophers or scientists from the 1600s, the odds are that they were privileged to have the kind of time to do that. For every Einstein, there are probably dozens of equally intelligent people who never had access to education or time to pursue it.

He hasn’t read David Scott. There’s about six ideas in a sentence.

Is that one bonus idea for the whole book or one bonus idea for each paragraph. The latter is a bargain!

Are we sure that’s Nate Silver and not Joe Rogan?

Nate is making more and more of an ass of himself by the day.

I am one of those but I don’t really know the kid who posted this nor does he seem to refer to me. I don’t think he has a clue who I am.

*noticing that 99% of historical figures were terrible people with a negative impact on humanity* you’d have to be incompetent to not admit that I have a high IQ!

Yet another example of someone who got lucky once (predicting an election) and now thinks they're a genius.

The great man theory still has appeal for mediocre men.

Born rich = high intelligence

A man who makes a whole career on creating models that don't actually predict anything is a bona fide genius in my book and welcome to walk into my discipline to show me how it's done.

“Shaped” because people who know what they’re doing have to fix the mess the high-IQ people make because they equate being-able-to-learn-something with doing-the-work-to-learn-something.

Intellectual insecurity. All the best Nazis have it. All trumplicans have it. All assholes have it. But I repeat myself. Intellectual bigotry is a loser’s game. World changers have been creative. Anathema to tech bros who just bank and bank on other people’s ideas.

2/ That is because intelligence is multi-dimensional and excelling in one dimension, does not mean you can’t fail in another. And the thing is, its impossible to know which dimension you may need in the future

Mentally ill is the key to it—You have to be sick as well.

“Boy Genius Inadvertently Reinvents 19th Century Great Man Theory” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_m...

Then you realise your family doesn’t own enormous wealth generating assets so statistically speaking you are f***ed

Need to being back tolstoy to fight this nerd

The villain at the end of Brave New World

Strong Raskolinkov energy.

Enshittified.

Zip it, Nate Silver

All over the world people with extraordinary gifts in one area or another are born daily. They are much less likely to make any observable contribution beyond the norm (which is sufficient) than a group of people working together and supporting each other in favourable conditions.

It’s stunningly clear Nate Silver does not understand what historians do.

Holy shit Dmitry's origin story

People still follow Nate Silver?

My special ed bus and class in grade school didn’t mean I was a genius?! 😱

"And what a coincidence, I am such an individual. Time to do some parlays."

As someone who was in AP English and AP History, the AP Math kids were the worst. They had no idea what their weaknesses are or that they even have weaknesses because they didn't pay attention in their humanities classes, & schools blow smoke up their asses & call them geniuses constantly.

Can he name some of these “events” and who was involved? Cause I’m only getting hitler vibes from this 🤷🏼‍♀️

The only solution is to imprison anyone with high IQ to prevent world war 3

like, idk. like,?

Scott Adams cloned

Great man theory of history. Can be dismantled in 5 mins.

Nate Silver: America's dumbest smart person.

The irony of the hubris of this man is just astounding I wish people would stop platforming his nonsense and remarkably bad takes.

Also everyones moustache man who lost the war in 1941 when he invaded the Soviet Union and believed himself to be a military genius

Fools like Nate love to disregard that many of the most influential moments in history are due to the idiocy of those involved.

IQ has been demonstrably shown to be a nice re-enforcer of white supremacy, so endorsing it as viable reason to be-king some assholes fits perfectly here. That said, one Redditer's MAGA father was bragging about his 98 online IQ score sooooo....

They look at speeches, letters, journals etc. to measure a person’s writing ability, grasp of complex ideas, stuff like that. Not sure about the method of measurement. Now I have to look it up. I’ll be back in 3 hours, lol.

A Math degree won’t improve your competence at Arithmetic. Cutting budget can shift or increase costs in other areas. For extra credit, how will Medicaid cuts affect your family? Show your work.

Except he’s a full grown adult who’s been shamed off various niches of the internet due to his complete inability to see context.

sure, and we're talking these Russia funded alt-right chuds here who think Hitler is a hypersmart genius guy (despite all evidence he was a junkie conman weirdo)

nate bronze

Every major and/or minor event in history is caused by high and/or low IQ individuals who are bad and/or flawed and/or not.

I have seen Genghis Khan’s PSATs(never took SAT or ACT), and sadly Nate is correct here….Genghis was in the 97% percentile within Mongolia on both Math and Verbal

It’s mentally very healthy.

When I learned about bell curves, and where I fit in them as a kid, I was initially relieved to know why I didn't fit in. Then, with age, saddened at the rest of the implications of it. With no ego intended, it's a bummer to realize you'll be smarter than 95% of people you will ever meet.

I am certainly not a genius, but I do what I can. Nevertheless, I am always down for whatever "Good Trouble" I can stir up.

This man babies are ridiculous. Woman, pen, clipboard, camera! I'd like my Nobel now please!

I feel like I could name more events shaped by low-understanding individuals, given far too much power through social hierarchies, oopsie-daisying themselves into collapsing empires...

This is such a bizarre statement from Silver, yet revealing.

As a guess, I imagine a large majority of practical inventions were by trades men and women looking to improve their efforts.

Spot on. Dunning Kruger effect manifest.

Love that comment!

Not "high iq", not "high agency", but just "high".

"are shaped" ≠ "are always shaped"

I was in AP math and not once did I think I was a once in a generation genius

Yeah, I love Reddit, but omfg is it full of people who think they're way smarter than they actually are. I've been on it for about 14 years at this point and there's definitely been a huge uptick in teenage boys using it the past 5 years or so.

"Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without recognizing that major events in human history are shaped by high IQ, high-agency people who are bad and/or flawed and/or dangerous." It's pretty easy, actually.

Why do we see so many despots get top billing in human events? Because that style of history is written by suck-ups such as Nate Silver.

so ~edgy~ I bet his favourite author is Ayn Rand

This all boils down to “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. These silver spooners have been told their whole life they are special and elite and their private school reinforces that. Completely unearned and mostly unwarranted but it makes them feel powerful and ultimately dangerous.

STEMlords think they're better than humanities graduates and then work themselves into a lather reinventing Hegel.

Nate Silver has turned into a MAGAt piece of SHIT.

I read an interesting book by Alexander Boxer called "A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data". Fascinating reading and by the end of it I came to realize that pollsters like Silver are modern court astrologers. Algorithm magic in both cases.

They all think they'd be the dictator because they're so smart. Not much in the history books to back that up.

Holy shit this is such an L Nate take

Great man theory is a fucking poison. Go read Vygotsky's theory of creativity instead.

Sycophants flatter rich and powerful people pretending that they have high IQ, when they tend to have middling or below average one. And you don't need high IQ to be a Gavrilo Princip who puts history flowing into a new direction.

Anyone described as "high-IQ", isn't. Doubly so if self-described or projected on to.

Can't believe I bought his book once. It was not a great buy

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Like, shut up Nate.

“High IQ” is an interesting way to spell “inherited wealth”

Spoiler alert: money gets you a lot more power than the results of an arbitrary test that isn’t even taken unless you opt into it.

It seems like it takes only a few malevolent people to cause many of the world's problems out of lust for money or power. They are ready to destroy the planet for a few more bucks. But Trump is the most glaring counter-example that they are all high-IQ.

I did not realize that as people really still thought IQ is a real thing as they do, and finding this out just makes me tired.

At this point, it's just embarrassing. He should have kept his head low and stuck to sports bookmaking. He's entering the "Lot's of guys wear Pampers; it's not weird" phase of his decline.

lol at "high IQ." Most historical figures are average or slightly above. Check The Banality of Evil. Most with high IQ are too dysfunctional and out of step with everyone else (says the guy with a 147 verbal IQ) but to be curious footnotes outside of their chosen spheres