He can be quite pleasant sometimes.
I think that intelligence can be seen as problem solving ability. That's how it's measured, too. Chess itself is such a problem although less suitable for measuring IQ since chess is to a very large extent a learned activity.
What I see is that Dio doesn't have a good ability at chess and he doesn't have an ability to construct arguments. Constructing an argument is in essence a very simple problem where the method is capable of formal or stylised execution. Roughly, anyhow. I think that when there is emotional input, due to jealousy and/or projection of one's known failings onto others, which is done for emotional reasons and sometimes without any self-awareness, the emotional involvement will have the effect of also suppressing intellectual ability, making the task of using one's intellect well much harder. Developing self awareness is the only way back. That will not happen when one is constantly backed up by others.
Here's snapshot of you while you are not hiding your own crazy...
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Some key Optimissed excerpts that cut through to the crazy:
"But I used to be able to see through solid objects. I'm not even joking. I probably could do it still. I can make people better by thinking. A long while ago I was shown a series of paranormal abilities, one after the other. Each one I repressed one after the other. That was instinctive. The final one was to see the truth. That's why a lot of people find fault with me and ignore me."
"I was what is termed a "special" child. My memory goes back to six months old. Sometimes I even think I can remember being Christened, just about. I was a childhood prodigy ..... educational psychologist made special trips to look at me. I was also extremely messed up but that's another story. My IQ is between 160 and 170. Probably nearer 170 and higher on a good day. I had a photographic memory.
So I tended to think whatever I said was right. I was used to people being so much less intellectually able than me that it was like living in a very unrealistic environment."
"When I was 18 I met a beautiful, fantastic 17 year old girl. She could cook well, loved going for walks, made her own clothes, intellectually brilliant and a natural athelete. Always won Victrix Lodorum at her school and never trained. She felt sorry for the others who trained like mad and still got beaten in the high jump, long jump and 100 metres sprint. We're still friends. We used to have enormous arguments. She was into the idea of magic. I thought it was stupid. Eventually she asked me just to open my mind to it. To deliberately accept that it was possible I had been wrong. In a few days I realised I'd been wrong."
"Regarding the 12 senses, it's always been an idea of mine, shared by others."
"Let me bore you with a little about me. I started a Facebook account circa 2003 or 4 and got into debating. I was interested in varied subjects. At one time, unasked for, I was being called "the best debater in English on Facebook". Naturally, there were several hundred people who tried to "win" arguments with me. It was like being a fast gun in the West. Tedious.
In my one previous incarnation here on Chess.com, several years before this one, I met up with Elroch and in those days he was such an obvious troll that I spent an hour investigating him. I found out his name, his job and the name of the village near Cambridge he lived in. Just in case. It's as well to be aware of who some people are."
"I would try to change the outcome of tomorrow, by thought, basically. I can direct my thoughts towards people and heal them. I've been able to do it all my life. By thinking calming thought full of quiet energy it is possible to sort out someone's bodily functions so they work better and don't cause them distress. At another point in my life I could see through solid objects and see auras and, well, you name it, but I rejected all these things to some extent because seeing truth .... seeing what is .... is perhaps the most important ability that exists. To some extent I can influence situations in the world too so I would hope I could influence THAT situation for the better!"
"At the time, when these psi effects were being revealed to me, I asked myself, "why me?" and the only conclusion I could reach is that there was a reason that I should be aware of these things. And it may be that the reason is coming to fruition, nearly 50 years later because this is the first time I've written in any detail about this for years and it seems to me that I now have awareness and clarity about how to express it. It is something that should be known about but only by the right people and, as the wrong people will inevitably dismiss it as bunkum, it would seem that this is the way to go. Softly softly."
"When I was 10, as well as being measured off the scale in an IQ test and being very good looking, I was a mental arithmetic prodigy. Habitually scored near 100% in mental long multiplication and division but I probably hardly ever scored 100%. I wasn't perfect at mental arithmetic and chance errors creep in when you're doing it against time, in front, basically, of an audience of 50, which was the class size."
"I believe I taught myself to do two mental processes simultaneously. I was doing it visually, actually, because I taught myself to write long numbers down in my mind in different coloured chalk and then I could turn my attention to something else, and then red off the number. Then I could symbolically rub it out and it was gone. Mental arithmetic was like being a trapeze artist, because in real time, mental processes seemed like geometric patterns in my mind and some of the processes were not fully concious.
It's really very interesting. I very rarely made mistakes but they could occur because, as I pointed out, no-one's mental control is perfect, even if it's close to it
On my 25th birthday, when I climbed an over 15000 foot snowpeak by myself, in thick mist, so much of the time you couldn't see two yards ahead, without a map or compass and obviously without a phone, which hadn't been invented, I got back safely because then I still had a photographic memory and I could remember more or less every step I took between the conical summit and the footpath over the mountain pass a couple of thousand feet below. But it doesn't mean I wasn't taking an enormous risk, all the same."
"I was never given my results of the test when I was 9. I was only told it was "over 140" and "second highest score ever in the county". I think I probably scored 180 to 190. I was on form that day and answered nearly every question. I might have got two or three wrong at a guess and failed to answer about two or three. The only other tests I ever took which were properly assessed and in exam conditions were the ones when I was recovering from hepatitis. I took them under every psychological condition and the one where I hadn't slept and was suffering from a heavy cold, which was 116, was well outside the normal range. Roughly the scores correlated positively with how I was feeling, so they were predictable. I remember thinking I could have scored 180, just looking at the stupid mistakes in my three or four 169s. Make of it what you will. I think it means that IQ tests are highly inaccurate."
"I gathered from your previous description that the Stanford-Binet wouldn't have measured a 180 to 190 test result. Everything was similar for me but I would say I developed my inner world more fully than Fischer had. I could do tricks using my mind that very few others could, if anyone. Taught myself at the age of around 9. This almost necessarily resulted in hallucinogen use around the age of 23, where I was exploring my mind, from the inside again. When I was nine I didn't need hallucinogens. I used to just decide I could do something, when I was in my 20s, and did so in front of witnesses. Anything from guessing the result of ten consecutive coin tosses, all accurately, to once when I decided I could write my name simultaneously and clearly with both hands, the left hand doing in mirror fashion. I knew some very talented people but no-one else could do that. Obviously, the 10 coin tosses thing wasn't me trying it hundreds of times and finally getting it right. I could always do that kind of thing. There are a few others alive who can but not so many. Anyhow, it was in front of witnesses and the only attempt I made. Some people here, if I mention it, will imagine that I'm making it up but that would be a foolish thing to do. It's even foolish to mention it at all but there will be some people whose curiosity is aroused. Anyone who can do this kind of thing perhaps has a duty to make it known."
"That IS interesting. I did quite a few experiments on myself in that way. Cycling long distances stoned, playing chess stoned, many other things. Rock climbing on LSD was quite interesting. In general I found the THC effect to be VERY good for concentration but if the concentration was broken it was hard to get it back and you tended to move on to another frame of mind or another thing. LSD was unpredictable and I was catatonic a few times. The latter was discontinued after one year's experimentation. I decided LSD might harm the immune system. Don't know if that's true or not. That was around 1972 to 1973. My wife just came back after an evening out. I'll ask her about rats and mazes and if they played a part in her psychology degree."
"You've said similar before. I'm in a care home you twerp. My wife's a registered mental nurse with an MSc in psychology and she's a practising psychotherapist."
"I only have a decent B.A. hons in philosophy, but I pursued the subject further, in among buying and selling antiquarian books and so forth. Officially, given my start in life, I'm a failure. However, quite a happy and fulfilled failure and it's nice to see my son in engineering. It really boils down to him sitting in front of three computer screens and managing a team of data scientists, which I wouldn't like but he's ok with it and, I think, very good at it. I should probably have gone in for metallurgy rather than mechanical engineering because I think that would have inspired me more, academically speaking. I'm afraid I just hated thermodynamics. I was good at the practical experiments and things like materials science."
"Do you mean about the low-functioning autism? I think I had strong, autistic tendencies when I was aged around nine or ten. Someone commented that I was developing compulsive behaviour and I immediately adjusted my behavior and became normal, really just by a subjective decision. Mental power and ting."
"I taught myself to control my own thoughts when I was 24 to 25 and it was extremely difficult. Our thoughts lead us to what happens in our lives. If you can't control negative thoughts, negative things will happen too much. There are always some accidental setbacks.
I could always control my thoughts in a positive way and taught myself that when I was 9 but always struggled wih strongly negative thoughts until I was in my late teens. Then I started to gradually take control and balance myself. On the way I learned that I had very strong psi ability. That was scary because I had to very quickly come to terms with the fact that I could kill myself and maybe others if I thought "wrongly", because I had such a powerful psi affect.
I just invented that phrase, psi affect. At least I think I just did. I know you don't believe that sort of stuff. A lot of people who reject it most strongly are those who would be very powerful. I was obviously like that. Aged 14 I thought the same as you, Elroch or Dio regarding that side of things."
Dio, I'm sure the whole community would appreciate it if you stopped being here just to "mirror people's malice back at them". Although you seem to be unaware of it, what you are describing sounds a lot like premeditated harassment.
Don't attempt to speak for a whole community, especially when you are in the middle of trying to take it apart to fit your own sensibilities. You are also motivated more by malice than by reason. At least you aren't crazy yet. I suggest you stay far away from the paranormal prophets and the anti-science crackpots.