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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2600 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 8, 2026

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I'm going to reply to both of our chains here because I think they overlap.

Someone who hasn't mastered the basics misinterprets that as "wrong" or "dumb."

Your whole linguistic verbiage reads as this weird striver/hustle slang. The fundamentals of what? If you were a CEO or COO doing hiring successfully I'd be more inclined to believe demonstrated mastery of the "position of intuitive mastery of the fundamentals" but if you were an executive you wouldn't be trying to get rich, you'd already be rich. So I think the implication that you've mastered hiring for talent is unfounded. Otherwise that could be your startup idea. I'm sure a lot of people would pay top dollar to a firm that could hire them the right person for the job.

upwards due to the intelligent logic like the critique of the pedigree lingo, the assessment of hiring practices from a psychometric point of view, as well as the concept of Fallacy of Sufficient Competition.

Your critiques don't read as a genius, they read as someone bitter about being gatekept out of a field. If I google "Fallacy of Sufficient Competition" I get 6 medium/substack articles, not the epitome of an original idea.

Aka, the poster is wrecking 115-125 IQ normies which is a robust sign of higher intelligence.

One, I seriously doubt anyone here is considered a normie. Two, I just realized you sound like this guy from slow horses. I couldn't find the clip where he talks about how much a genius he is but this is the general level of obnoxiousness, midwit behavior that you are engaging in: Roddy Ho. People who are smart don't feel the need to flex their IQ continuously. You would just give actually interesting arguments instead of name dropping references and getting triggered.

You have to be smart enough to do this yourself to appreciate it, though

Wow I really got hit with the rick and morty special unironically, maybe you are a troll lol.

If I google "Fallacy of Sufficient Competition" I get 6 medium/substack articles, not the epitome of an original idea.

This is simply not true.

You would just give actually interesting arguments instead of name dropping references and getting triggered.

I did give interesting arguments but you just lied about it being original. Links back to this insightful comment on the social construction of success signifiers: You would just give actually interesting arguments instead of name dropping references and getting triggered.

Look, my intelligence is not that high, but it's high enough for a quant finance job. I guess I can't be frank about that here without people getting triggered. Maybe this is not the right space for this discussion.

Look, my intelligence is not that high, but it's high enough for a quant finance job.

So, are you employed in one? Self-employed in something adjacent to finance, at the very least?

Reminds me of the other poster in possession of towering intelligence and a suspicious lack of tangible achievements who thought declaring his intellectual superiority enhanced his argument. Doubt it's actually him, though, it's been a few years and I don't think he would return to do the same thing again.

I think this personality archetype/line of debate is just fairly common amongst 'smart' mildly autistic guys who are about to graduate university and struggling to find 'worthy' graduate employment.

God I've been around here for a bit, I'm not sure I remember who this is. There's been a couple people that will flex credentials in other fields to give themselves a flex, but IQ flexers are not something I've remembering.

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