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Nope. Peak midwit behavior. You’ll find 110 to 125 IQ smart types usually college educated consultants or higher status career climbers playing these recognition games to feel a sense of superiority over everyone around them. Meanwhile the legit smartest most perceptive people simply act smart and witty because they realize there is no need for the games at all. A couple minutes of real convo tells you everything you need to know about someones intelligence. How quickly they respond. How deep their line of questioning goes. How they reason and challenge points. How they are perceiving you. Where their eyes go during the convo. How they jump topics. And so on. There is literally no need for recognition games when you can perceive someones intelligence with your own eyes and nervous system. At that point it is clearly just a waste of time. An egotistical social game or a hierarchy hack to climb into “high status” (relative) groups. Or straight up pretending to be smart around your peers when you could actually be being smart. I experienced that repulsive smug shit constantly when I was younger. I usually knew exactly what they were talking about. I just did not have full context and refused to pretend or audition. I would rather shut my mouth and observe than play their little recognition games to fit in. Guy It is very anti social behavior from people clinging desperately to their slightly above average intelligence because it is the only thing that makes them feel unique special valuable. So they guard their little acronym club hard and exclude anyone who will not play along. True intelligence does not seek recognition or run tests to spot peers. It is obvious as fuck to everyone around it. If you have to pronounce your intelligence or play silly little games to recognize equals you are not as smart as you think you are.