then what?

If the person knows stuff I don't due to specialty, great, I can learn something!

If not – well, a lot of boring "conversations"

At one point I thought it was because I just didn't like to talk about stuff that didn't interest me, and sure, there are plenty of such things – like TV shows such as "Law and Order SVU" – but when it comes to the basics of life, work, etc., almost anything from cooking to swimming to accounting to the ins and outs of being a professional pilot interest me.

And stories about camping, etc. are cool too – appreciated beauty simply _is_.

You really have to have no actual life or whatever to bore me.

One girl walked off confused because we were standing on a pier, looking at the sunset, I looked down and said "hunh"

She asked, "what"

I made the mistake of telling her what had actually crossed my mind. The simple absorption of the beauty, how I'd draw or paint it, how I'd try to model the waves for a 3d model (my hobby at the time) as well as texture map it, the physics involved, what was causing the particular pattern.

For instance, socialism… Socialism simply will not work for normal people, even though highly intelligent people could easily see the benefits and work with it… It's the greatest idea that will never work ever created.

Atheism is very similar… Highly intelligent people are easily capable of conceiving of, and working with, a policy of agnosticism which involves embracing the highly-functional rules of christian morality and ethics, without requiring strict adherence or 'faith'… but when he pushes others to do so, it evolves into the horrors of Atheism, because most simply cannot understand the WHY behind Christian Morality without embracing it's faith.

It's almost as though at the high end, intelligence becomes a zero-sum game… the more capable you become of dealing with complex problems, the less you can conceptualize simple ones. Like a brilliant Engineer who designs a 126-piece multi-use fastener when a clothespin would be even more effective.

There's a reason I scoff and laugh at anyone that suggests that Technocracy would be in any way desirable, or would be anything other than an absolute horror.

I remember an episode of House where some guy with 170-ish IQ was deliberately killing his brain just to enjoy spending time with this girlfriend. He couldn't stand her otherwise. I'll never get to that point, but I understood. Wonder how many extroverts got the message?