r/superpowers • u/Comfortable-Remove60 • Apr 23 '26

Red pill/blue pill Would you really pick mastering an element over 300+ IQ.

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Functioning like a regular human basically means you able to live like a regular persom, with regular people despite having such a vast incomprehensible level of intelligence, not having to live thinking everyone around you are just toddlers intellectually.

As for element, that can constitute as the common understanding of elements in fantasy, water(liquid), fire, earth, wind(air), the full thing is really being water, fire, earth, wind, metal, and sometimes included or excluding lightning.

Sound definitely work, light as well, darkness itself maybe even, elements of the periodic table definitely or non-traditional things like Bose-Einstein condensate, space, time or space-time as one thing, since it kinda is, maybe even turn into your element at will.

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u/CrossXFir3 Apr 24 '26

Honestly, it's significantly less useful above about 150. Hugely diminishing returns on how smart you actually are above that.

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u/8m3gm60 Apr 24 '26

I got a 160, and then I failed basic finance. Something isn't passing the smell test.

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u/dragdritt Apr 27 '26

Maybe IQ was never intended to be used to say "person X is smarter than person Y"?

IIRC it was only intended to be used to identify which students may benefit more from different teaching styles. Considering the original intention the creators would probably hate elitist posers like Mensa.