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How can i be smarter?

>> No.9450588

>>9450584
you cant

>> No.9450592

>>9450588
no there has to be a way, there has to be a way. I cant live like this

>> No.9450593

>>9450592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUdo7iV3EU
Use Bishop Sheen's method.

>> No.9450597

Practice one smart activity all the time and never talk about anything else.

>> No.9450603

>>9450593
Wow he even debunks pop-sci bullshit. See 14:01 ff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUdo7iV3EU

>> No.9450612

Stop doing drugs.

>> No.9450624

>>9450592
>I cant live like this
What do you mean?

>> No.9450627
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9450627

Get drunk and then read your notes sober. It is surprisingly worth a try.

>> No.9450653

>>9450584
Kill all the smart people. Intelligence is relative.

>> No.9450914

>>9450584
become redpilled

>> No.9452541

>>9450584
>>9450653
Or just move somewhere only stupider people live.

>> No.9452550

Eat fish

>> No.9452805

Stop wasting time on useless activities m(anime,porn, gaming). Dedicate yourself to some study (CS,math,physics) do as much reading as you can on it

>> No.9452947

Start by capitalizing your I's.

>> No.9452954

>>9450584
Most people live perfectly being a bunch of idiots, you will do fine.

>> No.9452960

>>9450584
by getting off this board and browsing >>>/lit/ instead

>> No.9453083

start doing the right drugs

>> No.9453175

flip a coin

>> No.9453201

>>9452960
Fuck off we're full

>> No.9453248

>>9453201
You should be more open to diversity, don't be such a bigot!

>> No.9453250

>>9450584
Beeing smart is overrated.
- I prefere nice, average intelligent and good-natured persons over super-intelligent, arrogant assholes.
- Scientific discoveries / progress often have more to do with luck then with intelligence.
- Computing power is more and more replacing brainpower.
- Wisdom beats knowledge. And I doubt it that wisdom correlates with intelligence.
- etc.

>> No.9454262

>>9453250
If you don’t believe that wisdom correlates with intelligence you’re a fucking idiot

>> No.9454690

>>9450584
For starters, stay away from idiots.

>> No.9454692

>>9450627
Honestly that's how I got better at math. I do a shitload of the next semesters problems while slightly drunk over breaks from uni. I do every problem until I understand where I went wrong on those I missed.When I'm sober, I become godlike.

Think of it like working out, you don't just lift the same weight, you add more over time. Then when you lift up the weight you started at you're like, "Damn, this is easy"

>> No.9454695

https://kotchan.org/chat/int#General

>> No.9454697

>>9450584
unironically just study formal logic and math, it's guaranteed to increase your score on IQ tests.

>> No.9454706

Help

>> No.9454710

>>9453250
it doesn't, but that's weird tho

>> No.9454723

>>9453250
>I prefere nice, average intelligent and good-natured persons over super-intelligent, arrogant assholes
conservativeness and arrogance are traits that correlate with lower intelligence
>Scientific discoveries / progress often have more to do with luck then with intelligence
false, only intelligent people have the necessary brainpower and curiosity to investigate weird phenomena, average joe just ignores it
>Computing power is more and more replacing brainpower
smartest AI in the world is still dumber than an ant and there is no reason to think AI will at any point become intelligent as in live organisms, so far it's only been able to perform simple monotonous tasks and it only exceels where intelligence is BTFO by computation and bruteforcing
>Wisdom beats knowledge. And I doubt it that wisdom correlates with intelligence
ask me how I know your IQ is 2 digit

>> No.9454792

>>9450603
Sociology BTFO

>> No.9454796

>>9453250
>being smart is overrated
I don’t think you’re qualified to make that claim if you’re making that claim

>> No.9454812

>>9450584
Develop a list of worthwhile areas of study and tackle them one subject at a time, one fact at a time. After approximately 20 years, you will have a formidable knowledge base. Normies think that this makes you "smart."

>> No.9454814

>>9450584
read books

>> No.9454854

learn a new language.

+10 iq granted

>> No.9454856

>>9450584
smoke weed + drink semen

>> No.9454865

>>9450584

Simply put reading books is still the most efficient way to gain knowledge. If you havent read 10,000 hours by age 30 Id argue you have failed as an intellectual.

>> No.9454870

Jesus, will you insecure brainlets stop making threads like these already? No, you cannot become smarter. Intelligence is entirely genetic, can't be improved, and declines more with age the dumber you are. All neuroprotective activities and practices are just that, protective, not amplifying.

You can either research what you want to do, look up the average IQ of a person who succeeded in that field, adjust according to your own IQ, or live in denial until you're forced to acknowledge your inferiority.

When I had studied Physics, I only needed to listen in class and practice a few hours once a week or to maintain my 4.0 GPA. Never did I experience great frustration, confusion or lack of understanding. I have 142 IQ.
Some my classmates quite literally studied all the time, yet nevertheless could at best manage a mediocre GPA, with a nontrivial ration flunking out. Their IQ, as far as I had gathered, ranged from 120 at best to 100 (!) at the absolute worst, with GPA correlating linearly.

>> No.9454875

>>9454870
How did you measure their IQ?

>> No.9454877

>>9454870

If guy1 studies 5 hours a week and gets a 2.5gpa is he smarter than the guy2 that studies 10 hours a week and gets a 3.0gpa?

>> No.9454885

>>9454875
I didn't. We talked about it and they told me theirs. Some were professionally tested and others gave a rough estimate based on online tests and general function.

>>9454877
Not how it works. Physics isn't about memorization, at least not in good unis. The problems presented at our tests bore no resemblance to given assignments other than the belonging to the taught subject, and more significantly they required using our knowledge in novel ways, rather than just vomiting formulas.

Regardless, intelligence clearly poses a ceiling along with its multiplier. Much like how a dog would never be able to learn calculus, I doubt even given all the time in the world that guys with 100 IQ could succeed in physics, though they might be able to scrape 4.0 in undergrad. But that's in fantasy, in reality they simply stand no chance.

>> No.9454887

>>9450584
by not browsing this board

>> No.9454892

>>9454885
>>9454870
You have no subtlety, you're inferior trash failing to masquerade as an intellectual. Academia requires no intelligence to succeed at, regardless of your whether you invent a delusional fantasy about your school requiring you to "use knowledge in novel ways." If you were actually smart, you'd be better at your sociopathic attempts to manipulate people emotionally. That would be a true reflection of intelligence, in direct contrast to applying boring formulas to boring problems and then patting yourself on the back because everyone else fell asleep. You're nothing.

>> No.9454896

>>9454892
Disregarding its connection to intelligence, IQ is literally a tool to predict, successfully according to data, academic performance.

The average IQ of a physics major is around 130, and as far as I had seen, the grades in our classes correlated heavily. No matter how many ad hominems you throw at me, how much you try to mask your lies with sophistry, you are simply barking against facts.

>> No.9454902

>>9450593
That was nice.

>> No.9454904

>>9454896
not him but learn how to fucking use commas mr. 142 IQ

>> No.9454908

>>9454896
IQ merely defines interests. No big deal.

>> No.9454946

>>9454908
>>9454904
>>9454902
>>9454896
>>9454892
>>9454887
>>9454885
>>9454877
>>9454875
>>9454870

A human brain is simply a neural network. And if you look at point A of the brain and point B of the brain at a cellular level you will notice they are identical.

So dont pat yourself on the back that you have an IQ of 150 or 150 million. You are still a stupid neural network in the grand scheme of things.

Any brain above a certain threshold can do any problem given to it. Just because you got lucky and had other neural networks giving your own neural networks a damage free environment with maximum stimulation doesnt make you a god damn genius. If you were a genius you would be solving problems like the millenial puzzles given in math for fun on a Friday night.

N=NP? Easy.

Building a quantum computer? Easy.

Talking to girls? Easy.

Resolution of singularities in characteristic p? Easy.

Try to be a little more useful than a rock while you live out your last 2,500,000,000 heartbeats. Or at least enjoy yourself while the adults actually solve useful problems.

>> No.9454960

>>9454870
>Intelligence is entirely genetic
actually read some literature on it
it's 85 - 90%

>> No.9454970

>>9454946
>>9453250
>>9454870
>>9454885
Why does this board have so many pseuds? Holy fuck.

>> No.9454972

>>9452805
>>9454690
>>9454812
>>9454814
>>9454865
>>9454887
These, more or less. Stop wasting time being a little bitch and crying about how stupid you are and get to studying.

>> No.9454973

>>9454870
I got a 3.8 in UCLA physics with a 92 IQ.
Next.

>> No.9454983

>>9454870
pic of degree for cred
blur out name

>> No.9455011

>>9454262
There's plenty of smart people that make stupid mistakes in life, don't know how to talk to other people, can't properly manage their emotions, etc. Wisdom barely has anything to do with intelligence.

>> No.9455099

>>9454723
>conservativeness and arrogance are traits that correlate with lower intelligence
See your last sentence? What does it tell about you? Did you even think about what you were writing?
>false, only intelligent people have the necessary brainpower and curiosity to investigate weird phenomena, average joe just ignores it
Ok, good point. But even if the respective scientists were intelligent, there were lots of discoveries where they didn't use their brainpower.
>so far it's only been able to perform simple monotonous tasks and it only exceels where intelligence is BTFO by computation and bruteforcing
Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. You're right in the sense that we don't know how it will develop in the future, but there is also no reason to think it wont make huge progress.
>ask me how I know your IQ is 2 digit
Perfectly confirms my post.

>>9454796
Haha, touche!

>> No.9455107

>>9450627
>>9454692
>alcoholics trying to justify their habit
if you did it sober you'd probably get good sooner

>> No.9455111

>>9454723
>there is no reason to think AI will at any point become intelligent as in live organisms
Literally all you have to do to achieve that is copy the architecture and put it on silicon, dumbass. Semiconductor chips beat slowpoke electrochemical neurons every time.

It's just expensive and we're still in early days.

>> No.9455118

>>9454870

Intelligence is not entirely genetic, no study on Earth says that.

Most studies place heredity of IQ between 40-75% with that number being lower as a child and higher as an adult

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Just read this. The tldr is you CAN improve your IQ with environment (nb: studying a lot) and this is essentially true throughout life, but if you're young, get on it, since your mind is far less malleable as you age.

To the OP: don't worry about IQ. Just make yourself study something

>> No.9455131

>>9455118
Nobody has shown that intelligence can be increased much by studying, either. Unless you're some trailer trash or ghettonigger, anyway. It's more along the lines of "getting hit in the head is bad".

Environmental factors account for a lot of the variation in subjects exposed to harsh environments in their developmental years, but drop off rapidly when you reach more tolerable standards of living. What this is suggests that you have some genotypical potential that mostly gets negatively affected by your environment. Heritability of IQ also increases with age, which suggests that it's an asymptotical kind of deal.

>> No.9455201

I wonder how well you'd have to raise your children so they could be as smart as Newton.