Highest IQ possible?
(Also, not an english speaker, do you ask which is the highest or what is the highest?)
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Caleb Cook
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Henry Scott
Not sure if there's a limit but there are occasionally people such as Newton, Ramanujan and myself who are over 200. IQ isn't a good predictor of success anyway.
Tyler Garcia
by definition, there is no upper as well as lower limit on IQ
Cooper Gray
mine
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Joseph Gomez
take a look at john von neumann
he was probably the smartest person to ever live
his IQ was thought to be well over 200, and he was considered to be significantly smarter than newton, da vinci, and the other "supreme geniuses"
he also possessed a perfect eidicit memory and was capable of extremely complex mental computation that even calculators cannot perform quickly
Parker Robinson
too bad he spent his time inventing the computer instead of pursuing immortality and cancer treatments or he might still be alive.
Luis Cruz
well, mind uploading is kinda a way to achieve immortality you know. I bet John von Neumann had the idea, he just didn't have enough time to do it.
Camden Harris
yeah its too bad he was born around the wartime period, he put a massive amount of time and effort on war/nukes/russians rather than advancing humanity
as for immortality, he was still limited by the technology of his time, so he wouldn't have gotten very far with that unless he invented the necessary technology as well (wouldnt put it past him lol)
Evan Harris
I can report these threads all day
Asher Scott
Wouldn't the upper limit of IQ equal to 100+(15*z) where z is the z-score equivalent to one person out of the entire human population?
I'm probably wrong but I reckon it to be 195.
Brayden Diaz
1337 XDDDD
Christian James
>smartest person to ever live
>not Ramanujan
Caleb Murphy
>well, mind uploading is kinda a way to achieve immortality you know. I bet John von Neumann had the idea, he just didn't have enough time to do it.
The computer end of this is is decades, if not centuries away.
The biological end is so far away, we can't even tell if it's possible.
And in the end, all you'll have is an AI that's a reasonable approximation of you, and you'll still rot in your flesh prison until the sweet release of death.
Austin Harris
>I'm probably wrong but I reckon it to be 195.
Supposedly the standard tests don't measure anything above 200 accurately.
I'm curious though, there are limits to what intelligence can accomplish, and the human species must also have some soft limits, but what about theoretical limits?
Is there a top end to "maximum intelligence"?
What if some entity were smart enough to solve ANY puzzle, smart enough to answer all of the universe's mysteries, smart enough to clear any intellectual hurdle?
Would it be possible for anything to be even smarter than that entity?
Zachary Hall
In answer to your grammar question, it would be "What is the highest IQ possible?" because you are posing a hypothetical, instead of referencing an existing set of IQ's.
Zachary Carter
>believes the "estimates" of historical figures
okay
>200 years from now
>conversation about the infamous Elon Musk
>"I heard he has an IQ of 200"
Adam Sullivan
>eidetic memory
This is a survival function for babies and toddlers. An actual case in a healthy non-mentally challenged adult has never been confirmed. People have only "claimed" to have it.
Henry Parker
>and myself
love you too user
Nolan Russell
I've linked journals and articles explaining this, and some idiots always joins in the conversation and claims:
>hurr but I knew a guy who could memorize parts of books and recite them perfectly
>durr but when I think I visualize a scene and can zoom in and out for details
>durr I know 100 places in pi
Colton Taylor
he didn't invent the computer. Von Neumann Architecture was miscredited to him.
Jose Ortiz
this does not answer the question but is an interesting link
davidsongifted.org
about kids with >170 iq
Thomas Reed
proper phrasing is "what is"
"which is" implies a decision between several known possibilities
"what is" is much more broad, and implies that there is only one possible correct answer
Daniel Jenkins
Wait. There has to be a lowest. I may not be the smartest dude here, but can it really go into the negatives?
James Collins
if i understand the test right it is actually parabolic, so your score as you get dumber and dumber approaches 0 asymptotically. likewise there would be some sort of similar upper bound. with the dependent value being your percentile within the human population.
in that way IQ tests aren't so much a measure of how smart you are, but rather how rare you are