As it looks to me, smart people with 150+ IQs who never get to realize their potential in any meaningful way is something that is just all too common in this world. In many ways, you remind me about
Christopher Langan, the "smartest man in America" with an IQ of 195+; much like you, he had an abusive upbringing, grew up to get dismissed as an
idiot on the internet, and generally not achieved much of anything.
If you're so incredibly smart, I'd suggest you pick up something to do that actually requires some significant smarts and that would actually be notable if you did it:
- Solve some known outstanding math problem (e.g. the kobon triangle problem, just to pick a problem that is easy to describe)
- IQ tests: if you're as smart as you claim, try the Titan Test or any of the other tests that qualify for the Mega Society.
- Code up something nontrivial that does not appear to have been done before (something like a GPU-accelerated AAC encoder, or an x86 version of Dynamo, or a snes emulator with GPU mode 7, or an audio compression program that outperforms optimfrog, or a thousand other things)
- Since you evidently care about AGW (even though you are seeing it as a hoax), join ClearClimateCode or some similar effort.
I mean, seriously: as it looks right now, you are holding up a
Skyrim discussion thread as proof of your intellect - as if the most noteworthy achievement of your life is to have defeated
Dagoth Ur or something.
Ok.
Let me put it like this:
I worked for some major company (DSM) 15 years ago, and thanks to me my boss at that time, who was one of the initiators of "Manufacturing Excellence", the new strategic plan for the company, put in it that the wanted the desktop PC management be "unified and automated". Something we have taken for granted, 10 years onward, for large companies.
At that time, everyone told me I was crazy, when I suggested how it could be done. But, as it was part of the strategic plan, they had to make it happen.
First they hired IBM, but they declined after a while. EDS came out on top. DSM spend 66 million on it, I got to actually implement most of it (together with three others), and they pulled the plug on the whole project about a month before it should have be delivered, as EDS acknowledged they couldn't do it.
So, after the cancellation, there was a serious problem. And I went through fire promising it could be done, fast. I did it with two others in 45 days. All managers rejoiced. One of them even gave me a hand.
So, we automated just about all of it. Getronics, the company doing the actual work, created a new SLA that promised they would do all the things that were completely automated, and that everything else would cost extra money. They calculated 1000 guilders (500 Euros) for each of the 35.000 desktops worldwide, each year.
After I went through pains noticing the higher management that it would be free money to Getronics, as we automated it all, they forged a new contract with them, for... 110% of the former one, to an average market value, as everything had become more expensive...
Did you guys count that? They threw away 50 million Euros. I build it and got nothing but my meager pay. Although my co-workers at that time are now managing it for life.
Do you think it would matter one bit if I had a paper saying I'm really smart? I have some of those already. No formal education, though.
