Since you seem willing to reference your IQ, I’m curious what is your greatest accomplishment with that IQ – does it extend to creative skill? Fairly new to following you so this is a good faith question

kalos
@kalos21million

In expectation I saved on the order of more than millions of lives. I’ve done altruism and AGI for most of my 20s, gave the first TED talk on EA, helped organize the early movement, created a branch of economics to increase morality, wrote a PhD about Altruism: Past Present Propagation, collaborated with some of the world’s greatest minds, most notably Bostrom and FHI and a few other people in the longtermist space, ran the world’s largest EA house, held the realm of Heterodox Effective Altruism when woke and feminists attempted to invade preventing max harm, brought many people into AI and EA. I’ve also done innefective altruism like donating some money to animal welfare, to individual EAs, to charity, to malaria and schistosomosis. I was one of the 5 sine qua non people who caused the largest donation in world history, most of which saved about 13k Indian lives but the part I really care about went to less tractable causes like future anti aging, AI, coordination tech, and preventing existential risk. I’ve brought a couple people back from suicidal ideation, put some shoulders back on the socket, and received at least 10 handwritten letters from different people saying I was the most important person in their lives and thanking me. I have a 70 page long document in my computer with a myriad of thank you notes and praise notes from all sorts of people I collected over the years. I made correct predictions about the future of specific things very often, and I made a few people rich through Bitcoin, I took a poor woman and her kid to see the ocean for the first time and gave them one of my weekend. I helped in a process that prevented the death of 60thousand teens in Brazil, and in the process I also became a philosopher, an evolutionary anthropologist, a self made rich guy who can say what he really thinks and not cancellable, and I’ve inspired a few hundreds of people during my trips because I am genuinely an impressively cool person when I’m in the more “hippieish” less “EA or rationalist” mindset, which happens when I am travelling. In short, I am probably one of the 20 thousand best living humans on earth, and I’m still 37, and almost surely top 1 million. All this with a massive disability, ADHD, which has made my sleep dysfunctional, made me obese, and caused me incalculable social distress and social problems in many of the groups I had. There is no doubt I have not been everything I could have been for the world, in the past or in the future. But I put my track record against anyone as having had a life as admirable as humanly possible given the deck of cards I was given. I am very proud of my accomplishments, in fact, I am surprised every time I do a recount that I have indeed done that much good to the world. I also don’t expect every other person with 145+ IQ to do as much as me. I was lucky in many turns along the road and was able to save an inordinate amount of lives due to factors completely outside my control. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. My inner altruist was honed and prepared. He took most chances he got. He came, he saw, he won. I hope I can continue to be inspiring to my fellow brilliant folk, and they too modulo stochastic luck manage to cause as much good as their deck of cards permits them to. Onwards and Upwards friends 😀