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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I think the most bitter part is him taking pride in his "real life" intelligence and his condemnation of test takers as "lifeless bureaucrats who can muster sterile motivation". There is a callous hubris there, I suspect fueled by resentment of past interactions with quacks and/or holier than thou academics, the remedy isn't becoming holier than thou in turn.

    Sneering is fun/cathartic, othering less so.

    NOTE: As a mindless drone pencil pusher myself, prone to to investigate things that don't clearly matter immediately to the "real world"; I might be a tad defensive here ^^.



  • and I’d say they only really work well for -20 to +0 relative to the designers, with a somewhat wider range for teams.

    I read this as:「These feeble minds cannot possibly measure my intelligence ! It's over 9000 !」
    This «I am very smart» lad must've received a disappointing score, which I suspect explain a great deal of his rant, humblebrag and all.

    That or it is indeed satire (although too much effort as gone into the author's blog, that if is satire it's more sad than funny).