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don't worry, winning this isn't actually a good thing
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in fact, regarding the yospos demographic, it's probably likely that less smarts is correlated with more happiness, more satisfaction and contentment with life, and less of a likelihood to want to drown in sweet sweet beer every day from now until you die
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this or that 
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Oct 22, 2019 11:28
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ps this is a name and shame thread. fishmech clearly has the most wikipedia urls memorised. that was a given. the rest aren't quite as clear :hmmmm:
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Oct 22, 2019 11:29
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the very act of posting in yospos, especially for an entire decade, precludes someone being smart
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Oct 22, 2019 13:53
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I thought dick clark already settled this one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBybDqhIPM
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smartest man in the world, but bereft of the one thing he needs: the delicate touch of a woman
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Oct 22, 2019 14:36
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is it u op
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Oct 24, 2019 05:20
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well, it's definitely not me. how are we defining "smartest", anyway?
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Oct 24, 2019 06:11
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I am a statistical anomaly, I am both dumb and unhappy
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:well, it's definitely not me. knows things
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I have memorized the entire windows xp key from work, does that count as knowing things? I don't know how to properly peel a potato though.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:well, it's definitely not me. - has won ‘smartest kid in America’ game show - stans windows and android endlessly - is enormously pedantic, especially over uninteresting topics like transport infrastructure in New Jersey in the 1990s - likes anime - is universally reviled on the something awful forums but also kind of tolerated/admired as an archetype - is forums poster fishmech/Nintendo kid
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The yoscattes are smarter than all of us.
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Oct 24, 2019 06:30
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it's stymie
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Gentle Autist posted:- has won ‘smartest kid in America’ game show she’s chill
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I'm pretty smart
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Oct 24, 2019 08:56
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it's me. proof:
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Oct 24, 2019 09:07
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i avoid telling my students that they're smart. instead if they do well i tell them that they must have worked hard. i think that this is psychologically healthier. if you tell someone they succeeded because they're smart, they hear that they are automatically good at it without trying, so i think it actually belittles their accomplishment somewhat. more importantly, it doesn't give them any way forward should they start to struggle. oh well i guess since this is hard i must not be good at it and i never will be because i'm not smart in that way. on the other hand if you tell them they worked really hard, they hear that their time and effort -- something they make a conscious decision to apply -- is valued. and if something is hard, they just think oh, that's okay, all i have to do is keep working at it and i'll improve. nothing more to it than that, no need to panic or get depressed.
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Oct 24, 2019 09:18
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its definitely not me so cross that out
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Oct 24, 2019 09:26
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Sham bam bamina! posted:it's stymie
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Oct 24, 2019 09:27
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i'm not exactly sure what accounts are free ranged goats posting about computers, but they're definitely the best
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Sagebrush posted:i avoid telling my students that they're smart. instead if they do well i tell them that they must have worked hard. i think that this is psychologically healthier. That's definitely the way to go, I wish I had gotten more praise for hard work in school rather than everyone just telling me how smart I was. Being smart doesn't take you very far unless you apply yourself
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Oct 24, 2019 09:34
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echinopsis posted:knows things this is like the worst possible definition. and not just because i am personally incapable of retaining even the basic facts necessary to navigate my life day-to-day.
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Oct 24, 2019 09:45
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yeah ability to think (smartness) and ability to remember things seem mostly orthogonal at least it seems that way to me, a person who forgets all things (except the useless things)
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like what? put a jigsaw puzzle together my father in law loves sudoku. presumbly he's good at it.. but does this "exercise" his brain like it's talked about around the sudoku table? I presume the sudoku circuits in his brain are fine. idk if it makes him go supermarket shopping coz he doesn't enjoy it therefore doesn't do it .. wtf? people call me smart, it's a wide (maybe shallow, but at least wide) knowledge base, especially around science stuff, that makes me seem like I know what I am talking about it real life. and picking up new concepts isn't that difficult, and no problems using computers. makes you the smartest person in your suburb here in yospos tho, there are dozens of people like that too, only better and can see through my sad facade
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echinopsis posted:like what? put a jigsaw puzzle together i am not quite sure what the point you're going for is precisely, but obviously knowledge without an ability to logically reason from it is quite worthless, and even colloquially it is sort of the opposite of "smart" (e.g. "book smart" is largely used in a derogatory way). equally obviously my inability to remember stuff (including forgetting entirely things i have carefully worked out logically in the past) means i'm not very smart either. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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It's definitely someone who didn't post in this thread.
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Oct 24, 2019 20:32
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knowing which pills to put in the container op
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Whoever has the most posts in the "cat thread" is definitely the smartest person in this forum
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i am not quite sure what the point you're going for is precisely, but obviously knowledge without an ability to logically reason from it is quite worthless, and even colloquially it is sort of the opposite of "smart" (e.g. "book smart" is largely used in a derogatory way). ability to store and recall lots of information is definitely a component of intelligence, being able to synthesise contextual meaning from it dials it way up
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Oct 25, 2019 02:26
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intelligence is measured by the square footage of your memory palace
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Oct 25, 2019 02:43
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I'm dumb af.
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echinopsis posted:my father in law loves sudoku. presumbly he's good at it.. but does this "exercise" his brain like it's talked about around the sudoku table? I presume the sudoku circuits in his brain are fine. idk if it makes him go supermarket shopping coz he doesn't enjoy it therefore doesn't do it .. wtf? people push the "sudoku is good for old people's brains" because like needlepoint, ships in a bottle and other time consuming menial tasks, it keeps them from putting on a suit and going down to the bus stop to wait for the 11:32 to Skokie so they can deploy to Guadalcanal
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i am a moron
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the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing
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its u
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Schadenboner posted:I'm dumb af.
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