Thread by @EricRWeinstein

I’ll say it this way. My “lived experience” is different in 3 ways:

A) My learning differences (I.e. disabilities) caused my intelligence, creativity & output to be invisible to essentially every educator I encountered. My own IQ is lower than many imagine due to “processing”.

https://twitter.com/a_centrism/status/1283182207029456896

B) We know far more about proven Black analytic abilities and contributions than we do about IQ as a predictor of intelligence.

C) I seem to live in the thick far right tail of Black Genius. Yet my Portal episode with @elewrockjazz was one of my least popular. So: Did I goof?

No. I have the best audience in podcasting and even here I believe my audience is just wrong. Eric Lewis is almost incomprehensible to me and I am sure it is because, as the surprisingly low IQ Richard Feynman (125?) once memorably said, his “Machines come from too far away.”

I have also seen what @stephstem went through as a colleague of his.

So, I have more faith than most that this is a HUGE arbitrage: IQ is not intelligence and I’ve discovered an enormous discrepancy in the market. I can’t seem to swing a cat without hitting a Black genius.

This is contrarian investing 101: you only profit when everybody is confused & thinks you’re an idiot! Well I’m betting that everyone who thinks IQ is intelligence and that Black Americans can’t excel at STEM is wrong. If you follow me you know I think the 🌍 is generally nuts.

Lastly, every day I have an experience that parallels Black American lives. I’m neurodivergent & a disagreeable contrarian. So I have an army of people telling me from the moment I get up until I go to sleep that I’m various things I‘m absolutely not with no way to correct them.

Ask @ParkerMolloy or @dandrezner and they’ll tell you I’m an idiot or a dullard/liar respectively...despite a Harvard PhD in math. Doesn’t matter! I’m a Dunnig-Kruger poster child to these people. Or I’m a libertarian when I‘m anti-libertarian. Or Alt Right when progressive. Etc.

This is what I assume it is like to be Black in a White dominated world: you are lied to about who you are almost every second of every day. You can’t afford to notice it; it’s like not noticing air *because* it is everywhere around you and I see Black analytic genius everywhere.

What are the odds that every single teacher you have is terrible? Very low if you‘re Neurotypical. But very high if you‘re Neurodivergent. Well, think of Black Americans as an ENORMOUS neurodivergent invisible community. They aren’t black: they‘re clear & you look right through.

So forgive me. I don’t trust the IQ testing. Call it the St. Lucia effect: tiny St Lucia has one of the lowest IQ scoring populations on 🌎 and also one of the Highest Noble Laureates per capita counts. The great thing about this planet is how much arbitrage opportunity exists.🙏

And I just want to say thank you to the professional commentariat, the experts, the journalists, the economists, the professors, the politicians & SJWs who make a point of getting almost everything wrong every-single-day. You created the opportunity of a lifetime.

I thank you.🙏

*Nobel Laureates.

I know: “Your spelling, grammar and incomprehensiblity show that you aren’t the mind you think yourself to be Einstein. You’re embarrassing yourself. Etc.”

Heh heh. I’ll just show my self out and delete my account now...how embarrassing! ;-)