Then there are personality traits like conscientiousness.
I also believe IQ doesn’t measure what H call viveka properly
… Indeed siddha-s are said to have siddhi-s that are clearly distinct from the cognitive capacity apprehended by IQ … some of them indeed seem rather uncanny.
Contrafactual models
Source: TW
There is a certain mental tendency
that exists across groups to accept a patently contra-factual framework as reality.
Once that is accepted
the individuals who have done so work within that framework
& to them the factual reality or pratyakSha appears delusional.
To such people
trying show the facts doesn’t work
because they are already inside their new pseudo-reality.
One may say what is the problem?
Could their reality not be equally valid even as Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptical geometry?
No, we are not talking about axiomatic systems here
but the process of deductions from logic.
The old H had presented two important principles:
- tR^itIya-prakArAbhAvaM cha sUchayati | ity eka-pramANa-vyApAraH : in the west it is called the law of the excluded middle and lAghava-nyAya, i.e. the principle of parsimony. When you reject these as part of your framework you create an alternative that is illogical but takes the place of logic to the believers of the system.
What we see is that high IQ offers no immunity to this
even though those individual might use regular logic for earning their living or in certain limited domains.
We see mathematicians & physicists who have high IQ,
and biologists who are often confronted by the realities of life in their work
slip into such frameworks
that are bereft of logic and operate as “true believers”.
That this mental tendency is widespread & longstanding
is illustrated by the archetypal susceptibilities they introduced
to allow the ekarAkShasonmAda-s to take root in west Asia.
The anti-AIT tilting & some other tendencies we witness in the so-called “trad” (as I perceive that category) H SM (some of it could be just shitposting)
are also manifestations of the same general phenomenon.
Other manifestations include the neo-occidental religion
and even the unbridled faith in “capitalism” in the so-called occidental west& their H fellow travelers.
See also: TW
intersectionalists
Source: TW
we see this in the 0-grade monotheism of the modern intersectionalists.
While they want to create a big tent of intersectionalists
they devour their own as illustrated by the example of that biologist Weinstein.
Following that in the west we see many biologists celebrating counterfactual positions.
I can see physicists or mathematicians do this because
despite their IQ they often fail grasp the domain specific constraints of biology.
But the key is that we see a lot of this among biologists
who turn a blind eye with respect to their own science.
This is because they are driven by the beliefs of the 0-grade monotheism
to show to their tribe that they are purer and superior members,
thus cannibalizing their own.
This coupled with the fertility negating memetic package
means they will eventual go down
but could take a lot of things down along with them.
In contrast Moe’s m3 mutation
has incorporated the same inward bloodiness
into a more robust framework.
That’s why it simply works to select
more and more virulent strains of his system.
There is also the danger that J’s m2 mutation seeded in India
follows a trajectory similar to m3 within the subcontinent
even if fertility factors limit in Europe and elsewhere.
When you encounter 2 people with nearly same, reasonable IQ but 1 taking 2 months to learn something which the other took 250 months then you wonder what contributed to the difference: Some mathematics can be achieved by high IQ alone, some physics might be understood, but that realm of knowledge lies beyond is often not seen