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Henry Dodd's avatar

This is the most Substack thing I've read so far. Good work.

Dr. Monzo's avatar

Repeatedly laughed out loud

Antony Lovell's avatar

This is really exciting. It reminds me of a white paper I found in an esoteric corner of the internet. It wasn't your average wonk slop. No, it had the touch of a real anonymous genius, or a group of hyperelite genii, or even the work of a real decentrentralised postliberal metamind. It's probably a fledgling counter- or rogue- or supra-elite, the kind of stuff you could old find on old forums. Some say they're still around, but they only come down to us when they find the time between trading cryptocurrency, researching novel approaches to invasive surgeries, programming robots, or devising eugenic alterantives to Tinder. Oh and attending fashion shows.

An initial vocab analysis estimates a mean IQ for the author(s) larger than Dunbar's number: 95% CI [147.41, 153.91]. That means they can dedicate whole IQ points to single individuals in the network. Can you imagine that? Scores as high are only seen within a few groups, there are probably more than a few Nobel laureates in there, or at least multiple people deserving of that honour, though I'm certain they'd modestly decline.

Book Club from Hell's avatar

This is reaching levels of IQ analysis thought impossible by anyone below a lower-moderate degree of intelligence (IQ=180). Not me, though. I understand you and commend you for uncovering a new type of elite (supra-elite, perhaps extant cousins of the uber-elite or arch-elite). This is exciting stuff. Someone really should just let us rule the entire world.

Spectral Valkyrie's avatar

High IQ scales with EQ 😎 this was really absurd and funny, keep going

CommunityCollegeDropout's avatar

The real EHC question would be would you cuck Hitler's dad and have your own Hitler baby? Do you think your Hitler baby would have turned out better, or perhaps was more effective than the full Fuhur? Maybe your Hitler baby would have gotten into art school or became a mechanic or something. Perhaps your Hitler baby would have been a communist that lead to a German-Soviet Communist alliance. Now THAT is real EHC.

Pataphors's avatar

God, this was a cathartic read. It felt like witnessing an exorcism.