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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:32:33 JST Rich Felker

   Good rule of thumb: anyone describing themselves with the word "polymath" in their profile is an utter prick and likely holds very authoritarian/right-wing views.

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     Ghostrunner (ghostrunner@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:43:51 JST Ghostrunner

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     @dalias I have met actual polymaths - the one universal is that none were so arrogant as to describe themselves as such.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:47:24 JST Rich Felker

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     • Ghostrunner

     @ghostrunner It's incredibly arrogant and it's an obscure word that most people are unlikely to even know unless they've met someone who calls themself one or unless they dwell in eugenics-adjacent circles where IQ is anything but a joke.

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     Ghostrunner (ghostrunner@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:55:26 JST Ghostrunner

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     @dalias precisely. Anyone who has taken an IQ test recognizes _exactly_ what it is "measuring", and it isnt generalized intelligence.

     What concerns me is how many fintech "interview screening tests" are really just repackaged "IQ" tests. As a cis-white-man its easy to pass those, but it sets the radiation detector pegging. Finance has always been toxic, but they are really refining those isotopes of late.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:59:08 JST Rich Felker

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     • Ghostrunner

     @ghostrunner Yeah. What it's measuring is shared cultural context and cognitive biases with a douchy class of white people.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 23:10:37 JST Rich Felker

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     • lhp

     @lhp And thereby a label that nobody should want to be described with.

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     lhp (lhp@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 23:10:38 JST lhp

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     @dalias it's one of the many labels no one deserving them would ever use to describe themselves.