What is a very intelligent person?

[Tigranes]

Score 130 on this test and you will be counted as very intelligent. Alternatively try to win as Maya with the best history simulator in the world.

 

[GenMarshall]

What the good Perfy said in the beginning of the thread.

 

[Old Hippy]

Score 130 on this test and you will be counted as very intelligent. Alternatively try to win as Maya with [URL="http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=452"]the best history simulator[/URL] in the world.[/QUOTE]

done that, but in hindsight it was probably the dumbest use of my time ever...
stubborn persistence is not usually associated with intelligence though

 

[metatron]

Score 130 on this test and you will be counted as very intelligent. Alternatively try to win as Maya with the best history simulator in the world.

20/20, with ease
152

An intelligent person would not have wasted that time.
Edit: An intelligent person would have continued reading the thread (which would include Graffito's post).

 

[Borachio]

because I have better things to do

I expect* you, as a very intelligent person, know full well that you're condemning yourself out of hand.

I, as a not intelligent person, don't understand why you would do that.

Are you saying that you're both very intelligent and not very intelligent at the same time?

Anyway, I'm getting the impression this is an exercise in futility. So I think I'll stop.

*quite what my expectations have to do with the price of fish is a mystery, of course.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Because all very intelligent people are veritable and bothered geniuses that can't get a breath, and cannot stay in one place?

Also, sometimes, they have a rather bad case of jackassery. Must be something to do with the "genius" part.

 

[Borachio]

Then the statement that a "very intelligent person wouldn't enter this thread" is plainly wrong?

Which was my point at the beginning.

The corollary (?) that only intelligent people would enter this thread is of course false.

 

[gay_Aleks]

In other words: everyone who posted here is stupid.

 

[Borachio]

Eh? How do you conclude that?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Since a very intelligent person wouldn't post in this thread instead of devoting his time to more greater purposes, like curing cancer, that means everyone who posted here is stupid.

 

[Borachio]

Well, yes. IF a very intelligent person wouldn't post here. But I'm saying they might.

Mr Perfection has hopelessly contradicted himself, imo. Maybe deliberately so. Who knows?

 

[metatron]

You could just be a cynic.

The most intelligent person on earth could start to cure cancer, get demotivated halfway through and just be, like "F it. I have tenure. I may as well waste time on CFC.
Btw, why do i have an office if i don't have six bloody marys for brunch in it?".

Theoretically anyway.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, yes. IF a very intelligent person wouldn't post here. But I'm saying they might.

Mr Perfection has hopelessly contradicted himself, imo. Maybe deliberately so. Who knows?

Dunno. Maybe the said Mr. Perfection? In the end, only a very intelligent or a very stupid man would create a contradiction while calling himself Mr. Perfection.

And only a genius would make it deliberately.

 

[Kyriakos]

You could just be a cynic.

The most intelligent person on earth could start to cure cancer, get demotivated halfway through and just be, like "F it. I have tenure. I may as well waste time on CFC.
Btw, why do i have an office if i don't have six bloody marys for brunch in it?".

Theoretically anyway.

Just imagine Einstein and some other intelligent people using their mind to just bicker about stuff on CFC or similar issues

Intelligence would still be there, cause it is the high number of complexity in thinking, but the result would be rather mundane, if not downright pitiful

 

[gay_Aleks]

Just imagine Einstein and some other intelligent people using their mind to just bicker about stuff on CFC or similar issues

Intelligence would still be there, cause it is the high number of complexity in thinking, but the result would be rather mundane, if not downright pitiful

Hi, my name is Bohr. As in, Bohredom.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hi, my name is Bohr. As in, Bohredom.

-Knock, knock

-Who is there?

-Doesn't work that way, m8, it is adiabatic, so you cannot know the other side while i can.

(stage death ensues).

 

[Hygro]

Having ideas that are both novel and useful.

That or being able to make other people a lot of money, in exchange for being called intelligent.

 

[Tigranes]

20/20, with ease
152

An intelligent person would not have wasted that time.
Edit: An intelligent person would have continued reading the thread (which would include Graffito's post).

So we got an answer to an OP: an intelligent person does not believe he is very intelligent.

By the way, I am wondering if general intelligence and general erudition are in any way connected. Yesterday I have been seen by a very good doctor, general surgeon with many good reviews. In a brief chat about my background we somehow touched the topic of Constantine the Great, and he stated that Constantine was Muslim before he saw Christ's sign during the battle and converted. Should I still trust him with my minor surgery?

 

[metatron]

So we got an answer to an OP: an intelligent person does not believe he is very intelligent.

Hygro pointed that out in a rather neat fashion in one of the last IQ threads. Back then Hygro also implied (and i agree) that game theory predicts that we may somewhat likely never know who is the poster with the highest IQ (on a serious test that is) on cfc ot at any given time.

See, i broke with my habit here and in the thread about the thing and i already look pretty damn stupid.
q.e.d.

 

[Borachio]

By the way, I am wondering if general intelligence and general erudition are in any way connected. Yesterday I have been seen by a very good doctor, general surgeon with many good reviews. In a brief chat about my background we somehow touched the topic of Constantine the Great, and he stated that Constantine was Muslim before he saw Christ's sign during the battle and converted. Should I still trust him with my minor surgery?

Yes, why not? How is his erudition, or lack of it, on Constantine, in any way reflective of his ability to do surgery? And isn't the latter your sole criterion for judging whether you should trust him, or not?