social-isolation

Casey Handmer ✓ @CJHandmer Follow Having spent much of my adult life around people like this, it's something that's basically never discussed. You end up forming ad hoc communities from people who have climbed as high as they can in search of other people like them. Certain companies, technical universities, etc. But even then certain facts become evident. 1. Anyone who is far enough down the curve to have nothing in common with their spawn cohort has essentially nothing in common with any other living human, except that isolation. It's like the Star Wars cantina. 2. Ability is still extremely power law distributed. Our OP here could easily find himself in between a conversation between two IQ 160 types, and realize that once you're on the concave upwards part of the curve, there is no cluster of "people like me", just an ever thinning set of next level geniuses who can do in an afternoon what might take me 5 years. If they could be bothered. 3. AI is changing this to an extent.