Leo Gura

I don't think that is happening now. Extradition to UK just to let him go to Romania sounds insane. Extradition is a pretty serious legal process. You don't do that just to let them go. Tate is in deep trouble if Trump doesn't free him. Tate better start bribing Trump's goons.

Liking drama is like clickbait. Social media is all about platforming drama.

Of course. Guys would sleep with a serial killer girl. In this respect it is symmetrical. You love drama too! You don't want a boring life either. Girls like drama because they love feelings. It makes her feel. Girls would rather feel negative than feel nothing. Attracting girls is all about making them feel things. Narcs excel at manipulating feelings.

Away from endless survival.

But not the same disorders. Your view is overly optimistic. No amount of intelligence will help you when you get a serious disorder. Many disorders have no cure at all. Until you experience that, you won't understand it.

It is possible to stop feeding the beast. Having kids is the surest way to feed the beast. People keep unconsciously doubling and tripling their survival load. I avoid stuff like that.

Sure. But if you are attractive in other ways, girls will put up with anything. It is amazing what things girls will tolerate in an attractive guy. An attractive guy can be a serial killer and girls will still be down.

Don't be so sure about that. Trump and Tate will have much higher bodycounts than an average dude. Women do seem to be drawn to narcs like magnets. Don't underestimate how many utterly foolish and immature women are in the dating pool. They are not thinking about the consequences of dating a Trump/Tate. Not just some women, most women will be drawn to it. Do not forget that a character like Trump is charming in person. In the news media is very different.

Hard to say because I don't have much experience with IQ tests. I know a person can develop intelligence, which is different from increasing IQ. I don't see the point, unless you have some disorder that needs diagnosis. Taking an IQ test can artficially make you doubt and limit yourself. Let's say you score 90. You will now feel inferior and insecure. That is a bad outcome.

But there is a general intelligence measure called g. A dog is less intelligent than a human. IQ is designed to correlate to g. It does to some degree. People who do well in IQ tests have high g. High g is objectively good to have, but of course it alone is not enough.

Because I don't like being a rat in a wheel, running endlessly nowhere.

@Schizophonia Don't act like women aren't attracted to narcs. We know they are. Narcs have delusional levels of confidence, which women love. Until it gets weaponized against them. Look at Trump and Tate as prime examples. They are delusionally over-confident. Do they have a challenge getting women? No.

But it's not just about math. That's only the tip of the iceberg. 80 IQ will struggle in many other tasks that require reasoning ability. An 80 IQ probably needs a non-intellectual job.

Why the rush? Within 10-20 years you can read all those books. To the point there won't be anything worth reading anymore. It is hard for me to find books worth reading nowadays, and I'm barely 40. I mostly do audiobooks these days. Books pay diminishing returns. After you read 250, you got pretty much what you need for life. Try reading without stopping so much to think. Or, just read however is most enjoyable for you. If you are enjoying the process, how long it takes doesn't much matter. But taking months to read a basic book is too long. You are stopping too much. Most books do not warrant so much labor.

My interests are simply elsewhere. I am trying to transcend survival, not to drive myself deeper into it. Having kids means doubling down on survival for 20+ years. That's not what I want. If I had kids, I would resent being bogged down in that much survival. I am way too disillusioned for that. And my health problems make that even worse.