Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)

Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/17

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Acknowledgements

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 1: Manahel Thabet for being the first in this series and giving a gauge on the feasibility of this project, and to Evangelos Katsioulis, Jason Betts, Marco Ripà, Paul Cooijmans, Rick Rosner; in spite of far more men in these communities, it, interview wise, started with a woman, even the Leo Jung Mensa article arose from the generosity of a woman friend, Jade.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 2: Claus Volko, Deb Stone, Erik Haereid, Hasan Zuberi, Ivan Ivec, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Monika Orski, and Rick Rosner.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 3: Andreas Gunnarsson, Anja Jaenicke, Christian Sorensen, Claus Volko, Dionysios Maroudas, Florian Schröder, Ronald K. Hoeflin, Erik Hae reid, Giuseppe Corrente, Graham Powell, Guillermo Alejandro Escárcega Pliego, HanKyung Lee, James Gordon, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Krystal Volney, Laurent Dubois, Marco Ripà, Matthew Scillitani, Mislav Predavec, Owen Cosby, Richard Sheen, Rick Farrar, Rick Rosner, Sandra Schlick, Tiberiu Sammak, Tim Roberts, Thomas Wolf, Tom Chittenden, Tonny Sellén, Tor Jørgensen.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 4: Björn Liljeqvist, Christian Sorenson, Claus Volko, Dionysios Maroudas, Sandra Schlick, Erik Haereid, Giuseppe Corrente, Guillermo Alejandro Escárcega Pliego, HanKyung Lee, James Gordon, Justin Duplantis, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Laurent Dubois, Marco Ripà, Matthew Scillitani, Mislav Predavec, Richard Sheen, Rick Farrar, Rick G. Rosner, Thomas Wolf, Tiberiu Sammak, Tim Roberts, Tom Chittenden, Tonny Sellén, and Tor Arne Jørgensen.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 5: Anthony Sepulveda, Christian Sorenson, Claus Volko, Dionysios Maroudas, Erik Haereid, Giuseppe Corrente, Guillermo Alejandro Escárcega Pliego, Heinrich Siemens, Hindemburg Melão Jr., Jason Robert, Julien Garrett Arpin, Justin Du plantis, Marios Sophia Prodromou, Matthew Scillitani, Mhedi Banafshei, Rick Rosner, Tiberiu Sammak, Tor Arne Jørgensen, and Veronica Palladino.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 6: Anas El-Husseini, Andrew Watters, Anthony Sepul veda, Arturo Escorza Pedraza, Beatrice Rescazzi, Bob Williams, Byunghyun Ban (반병현), Cas per Tvede Busk, Charles Peden, Craig Shelton, Christian Sorensen, Claus Volko, Erik Haereid, Giuseppe Corrente, Justin Duplantis, Krystal Volney, Mhedi Banafshei, Paul Cooijmans, Rich ard May (“May-Tzu”/”MayTzu”/”Mayzi”), Richard Sheen, Shalom Dickson, Thor Fabian Petter sen, Tiberiu Sammak, Tim Roberts, Tor Arne Jørgensen, and Anonymous Canadian High-IQ Community Member.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 7: Anas El Husseini, Aníbal Sánchez Numa, Anthony Sepulveda (Brown), Anja Jaenicke, Beatrice Rescazzi, Bîrlea Cristian, Bob Williams, Christian Sorensen, Clelia Albano, Eivind Olsen, Erik Haereid, Gernot Feichter, Giuseppe Corrente, Glia Society Member #479, Graham Powell, Hakan E. Kayioglu, Heinrich Siemens, Justin Duplantis, Kishan Harrysingh, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Marios Prodromou, Mhedi Banafshei, Mohammed Karim Benazzi Jabri, Monika Orski, Richard May (“May-Tzu”/”MayTzu”/”Mayzi”), Sandra Schlick, Tiberiu Nicolas Sammak, and Tor Arne Jørgensen.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 8: Anthony Sepulveda, Anja Jaenicke, Antjuan Finch, Bishoy Goubran, Bob Williams, Charles Peden, Chris Cole, Christopher Harding, Christian Sorensen, Daniel Shea, Dong Geon Lee, Eivind Olsen, Entemake Aman (阿曼), Erik Haereid, Gareth Rees, Gary Whitehall, Glenn Alden, Jiwhan (Jason) Park, Luca Fiorani, Masaaki Yamau chi, Masaaki Yamauchi, Matthew Scillitani, Michael Isom, Olav Hoel Dørum, Paul Cooijmans, Paul Cooijmans, Richard May, Richard May, Rickard Sagirbay, Shalom Dickson, Sudarshan Murthy, Svein Olav Glesaaen Nyberg, Tim Roberts, and Tor Arne Jørgensen.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 9: Anthony Sepulveda (Brown), Antjuan Finch, Benoit Desjardins, Bob Williams, Christopher Angus, Clelia Albano, Craig Shelton, Daniel Hilton, Donald Wayne Stoner, Dong Geon Lee, Dr. Benoit Desjardins, Eivind Olsen, Erik Haereid, Gareth Rees, Hiroshi Murasaki, LaRae Bakerink, Luca Fiorani, Michael Baker, Paul Cooijmans, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, Richard May (“May-Tzu”/”MayTzu”/”Mayzi”), Rick Rosner, Simon Olling Rebsdorf, Sudarshan Murthy, Tor Arne Jørgensen, and Uwe Michael Neumann.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 10: Anthony Sepulveda (Brown), Chris Cole, Ente make Aman (阿曼), Erik Haereid, Eivind Olsen, Graham Powell, Iakovos Koukas, Larae Baker ink, Paul Cooijmans, Richard May (“May-Tzu”/”MayTzu”/”Mayzi”), Rick Rosner, Scott Dur gin, Scott Jacobsen, Tor Arne Jørgensen, and Uwe Michael Neumann.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 11: Brandon Feick, Chris Cole, David Miller, Dr. Be noit Desjardins, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, Entemake Aman (阿曼), Hindem burg Melão Jr., Justin Duplantis, Kate Jones, Masaaki Yamauchi, Matthew Scillitani, Michael Isom, Richard May (“May-Tzu”/”MayTzu”/”Mayzi”), Rick Rosner, Tianxi Yu (余天曦), Tomáš Perna, Tor Arne Jørgensen, Uwe Michael Neumann, and Veronica Palladino.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 12: AntJuan Finch, Beatrice Rscazzi, Bob Williams, Claus Volko, M.D., Clelia Albano, Craft Xia, David Udbjørg, Entemake Aman (阿曼), Erik Haereid, M.Sc., Fengzhi Wu (邬冯值), Garth Zietsman, Hindemburg Melão Jr., Justin Duplantis, LaRae Bakerink, Luis Ortiz, Matthew Scillitani, Nozomu Wakai, Olav Hoel Dørum, Rick Ros ner, Scott Durgin, Simon Olling Rebsdorf, Tianxi Yu (余天曦), Tim Roberts, Tor Arne Jørgen sen, Veronica Palladino, M.D., Victor Hingsberg.

For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 13: Jaime Alfonso Flores Navas, Krzysztof Zawisza, Luca Fiorani, Mattanaw, Mizuki Tomaiwa, Nikolaos U. Soulios, Petros Gkionis, Rick Rosner, Tianxi Yu (余天曦), Tomáš Perna, and Tor Arne Jørgensen.

Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Foreword by Jaime Alfonso Flores Navas

Shaping human history the right way can be done with fuel being not just from anger necessarily thus high IQ people can propose out of need of curiosity, but curiosity as means to thrive. To go beyond mere why, which a lot of this is the most important component to how, but beyond “by what” thus defying our imagination beyond conceptual stage from mere limitations from human current stage of evolution and its inconsistency as beyond plain amnesia to how humans, espe cially human brains evolve and how such processes are understand as could be seen from several dimensions even beyond mere yet important scopes, thus paradoxically making this stage what most consistency gives to the system, alike: “What makes mathematics mortal makes them im mortal”.

Actual democracy cannot be attained without actual inclusion of people from all backgrounds including high IQ people. Marilyn vos Savant has given a key and elevated example to what should be done from all scopes on this regard. Currently, together with my high IQ colleagues from around the world, we are creating an initiative called the Syncritic Institute, the aim of which is to create a friendly and supportive space in this world for extremely intelligent and crea tive people, so that they can be a part of the world instead of being apart from the world.

Mistakes are not mistakes if we learn grom them, in fact they may be seen as experiences from the individual stage, thus it’s a mistake to think about mistakes as such from the higher view, yet and especially considering it’s worst to do nothing.

Also bearing on mind how Ancient civilisations like Ancient Greeks were able to make huge ad vances, we dare say, ahead of their time, like symbolically the lighthouse of Alexandria, which could project light to far distances, as parallel to ahead in fine, their legacy should be retaken, not just by rebuilding over the ruins of their structure, but making it stronger, thus not only retaking good old structure they erected but, by learning from why such structure went on a trend down ward, such “mistakes” will be not only experiences to our growth by learning they’re not mis takes if we learn from them, but it would be worse if we do nothing, exponentially considering our history epochs are increasingly becoming shorter in timeframe, which can be a real ad vantage in order to speed up and boost progress, but not doing so, especially the right way and as soon as possible, can indeed play against us, inasmuch as such timeframes can be symbolically be seen as similar to a Greek Golden ratio, the same way mathematics can be seen as a circular thought, in order to provide a Greek example and apparently rational, but Mobius strip would be a better example to it conceptually speaking, thus mirroring apparently strong concept like a cir cle, but how to make it stronger thus learning from its weaknesses? Going beyond and looking it from higher scopes, out of curiosity and need, not necessarily mere need, and that’s what our Institute intends to do, with ethics, dedication and the core values we all need. Our mission can be scoped symbolically as a Greek delta (Δ, δ), a triangle each side representing an n letter, which are noble, novelty, nonparallel, such quite appropriately represent change, from logical thinking as used in mathematics and physics, pointing above as limitless progress.

In my country, a lot of progress has been made for we have a very smart and highly capable lady president who supports progress and change by all scopes, and science is not an exception. P. h. d. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and we hope a great change in the consciousness is inspired upon her example. Actually, she represents not only the future but the present. We’re not just the future, but the present, and change is what we need now.

This scope helps us see the gist(s) of this magnificent book, by literally geometrically increasing our progress from all possible scopes.

Foreword by Krzysztof Zawisza

The most important trait of a human being is intelligence. The more developed this trait is, the more it enables one to make fundamental distinctions: distinguishing truth from falsehood and good from evil. However, as is well known, people differ greatly in their level of intelligence and their ability to use it.

At the same time, high intelligence is associated with the ability to analyze, think abstractly, and be creative. This fact has long been emphasized by many authors (J.P. Guilford, R. Sternberg, M. Csikszentmihalyi, and others). Since high intelligence is linked to mental acuity and creativity, both civilizational and spiritual progress depend primarily on the ideas and work of highly intelligent individuals. It is these exceptionally intelligent people who create the most useful innovations, make the most important scientific discoveries, and drive cultural development (as noted by authors such as H. Gardner, J.P. Rushton, J. Lehrer). According to fairly credible estimates gathered by Libb Thims in his Hmolpedia, historical figures like Copernicus, Shakespeare, Galileo, and Kepler most likely had IQs five standard deviations above the average or higher.

However, the role of individuals with the highest intelligence is not limited to creating scientific, technical, or even cultural progress. It is outstanding intelligence that offers humanity the most challenging, elusive, yet most valuable gift. Intelligence enables spiritual advancement. Individuals with high IQs are capable of making more reflective decisions on ethical matters, which can influence progress in various areas of life. When engaged in spiritual development, they significantly contribute to creating a more empathetic and ethical society (H. Gardner, M. Seligman, D.B. Ausubel). There is no doubt that the most morally insightful individuals and creators of universal ethical systems (Pythagoras, Socrates, A. Schweitzer) made their epochal (and timeless) observations due to their profound wisdom, based on comprehensive and outstanding intelligence.

Thus, intelligence is the most important human trait. It allows for discerning truth from falsehood, good from evil, and the transient from the enduring. People with high intelligence are a great gift to the world as they catalyze the development of humanity in individuals and generate human progress. However, high intelligence also evokes fear, consternation, envy, feelings of inadequacy, and apprehension among those who do not possess it. Consequently, those with very high intelligence are often socially excluded or marginalized, and their achievements, ideas, attitudes, and plans, instead of serving as a reference point and model for others, are generally ignored (M. vos Savant, D. Palmer, M. Ferguson). Therefore, the work undertaken (and still being pursued) by Scott Douglas Jacobsen is all the more significant.

This Canadian independent journalist and entrepreneur, who himself possesses an exceptional IQ, has for years dedicated himself — through his portal In-Sight Publishing and “In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal” (ISSN 2369–6885) — to promoting the lives and work of high IQ people. Over the past 10 years, he has conducted countless interviews with representatives of the high IQ community (including extraordinary and creative thinkers such as Ronald K. Hoe flin, Rick G. Rosner, Dr. Veronica Palladino, Dr. Claus D. Volko, and others), showcasing the views, lives, and achievements of highly intelligent people. Numerous examples of such interviews are contained in this volume.

These interviews, which I warmly encourage you to read, largely serve as an argument for the thesis that high intelligence is associated with rich imagination, independence, creativity of thought, and emotional depth.

However, Scott Jacobsen does not limit himself to this alone. He attempts to rescue from oblivion innovative scientific ideas, publishing together with Rick Rosner a two-volume work “Tweets to the Universe” and the monumental “An Introduction to Informational Cosmology,” where Richard G. Rosner’s brilliant ideas about the informational universe are developed. Unfortunately, this concept, like the CTMU theory by Christopher Michael Langan, known within the high IQ community and also based on the notion of information, or the refreshing approach to mathematics by Marilyn vos Savant (“The World’s Most Famous Math Problem”), or the recent concept of new mathematics by Carolina Rodriguez Escamilla (“The Teotl Theorem”), have not entered the scientific mainstream. This fact clearly indicates that the extensive activity of the Canadian journalist, author, scholar, and activist is still not enough.

Since R.K. Hoeflin founded “The Mega Society” requiring admission percentiles of 99.9999, or one in a million, in 1982, successive elite high IQ societies have been popping up worldwide like mushrooms. Unfortunately, with very few exceptions, these societies do not actually support or promote the creative or innovative activities of their members, nor do they activate them to develop such activities. As a result, membership in the vast majority of international high IQ societies has merely a prestige character — serving as a kind of certificate that a member achieved a high score on some intelligence tests. However, the high intelligence of members of even the most elite high IQ societies is rarely utilized and almost never fully exploited. People of very high intelligence, and thus generally having great innovative and creative potential, rejected by society and unsupported by the high IQ community, devote themselves to the struggle for sur vival in an often hostile environment, treating their abilities (presumably given to them for some important purpose by the Universe or the Creator) at times as a curse or doom.

However, by doing so, the most intelligent and creative individuals betray themselves and their mission. In the spiritual tradition of humanity, recorded in writings such as the “Gospel,” “The Book of Mormon,” Plato’s Dialogues, or “Nicomachean Ethics,” the theme of responsibility for developing one’s talents for the benefit of the world and people, and opposition to burying those talents, consistently appears. Meanwhile, intelligence is the most important human talent (cf. J. Strelau’s “Human Intelligence”).

Intelligence is the most important human trait. If it is sufficiently high, it enables a sharp and clear view of the world, resulting in the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, reason from madness, light from darkness. It is individuals with the highest intelligence who are responsible for the survival and development of our world. However, intelligence is the least appreciated trait in the modern world, and its existence is virtually excluded from social consciousness. In particular, differences in human intelligence are suppressed and rejected in the consciousness of democratic societies.

To counteract today’s disastrous trends, we created the international “Syncritic Academy” Foundation, whose statutory goal is both to support the creative and innovative use of talents of individuals of exceptional intelligence and to combat the social and scientific exclusion of such indi

viduals. We are also working on legislative changes in this area to protect the most intelligent and talented individuals and enable the use of their abilities and work. We maintain that fully utilizing the potential of those who are professionally and socially excluded today due to their exceptional intelligence is the only way out of the current scientific, cultural, and spiritual crisis that the world is undoubtedly sinking into.

We cordially invite all high IQ individuals who are authors of important reflections and/or revolutionary discoveries, or who are working on such discoveries, to contact us. Together, we will make the world a better place.

Krzysztof Zawisza

Foreword by Mattanaw

Very intelligent people are notably absent from mainstream culture, where typical media and entertainment is most pervasive, sharing only what is thought to be palatable and enjoyable to the largest segments of the population, which of course is comprised primarily of those minds that are closer to the average in most ways. An effect is that people are not often exposed to those who are exceptionally and profoundly intelligent, and when they are, they may not know it, because those who are extremely intelligent, while having the average population as an audience, will alter their behavior so as to be more readily understood. They perform the same act that they knowingly or automatically perform in real life dealing with strangers: they follow along with simple questions, allowing conversations to remain simple; they share interests that are akin to regular interests, to show commonality; and they express agreement when there certainly could be little agreement, to have smooth and considerate transactions. A result is that people, almost everyone, do not have much experience with the most intelligent people and are really unable to differentiate. This creates problems in politics where people are unable to identify which people are actually the most able, if any able politicians happen to be present at all. It also reduces the influence of scientists and skilled experts, because they too are not easily distinguishable from others and their quality of mind is not well appreciated.

A major contribution of the work of Scott Douglas Jacobsen, is to provide the public access into the world of some of the most highly intelligent. Many of the people who are extremely intelligent thrive within academia, various industries, independently, or in the High Intelligence Com munities. These are areas in which they live and spend time, but these are also locations in which people cannot readily join in. The Some Smart People, Views and Lives series, along with some of In-Sight Journal’s other publications, are filled with activity from some of the same people who are spending time in socially exclusive and reclusive social locations. I can think of few other places to look, where people can read materials from exceptional people expressing themselves in ways that are closer to how they really think. I recall quickly writing a very brief article, entitled “How Do People With IQs Over 180 Act and Think?” in response to a query on social media, to provide some direction to a person who was wanting to be more informed on the topic of how people with immeasurable IQs really think and behave. In retrospect, the answer was not especially informative partly because I did not fully appreciate the extent in which the highly intelligent people were separate and unavailable to the normal public. Today I think there is a large research issue regarding how this might be achieved, to get information about individuals at a personal level. One can read academic journals in medicine, mathematics, physics, and the other sciences, and get exposed to the output of very intelligent people but you do not get to know them in the process. The very smartest may still not be present although that output may lead one to believe that’s where these people are found. That’s one reason why this publication is especially helpful to the public, because it provides a location where they can be found, and where they won’t be simply sharing academic material that gives the impression that they are really smart without providing anything about who they happen to be. In this publication the highly intelligent have a chance to tell you about themselves in a more personal way. If a reader happens to be sufficiently interested, they can learn more about specific individuals, having a pathway to research, since the writers are sharing details about activities they are or have been involved in, in which more information can be located. Mr. Jacobsen is providing an avenue that I could not provide in my quick response, to read about these thinkers and have a pathway to understand them and intelligence further, and today if I were to direct readers to a place to gain knowledge about the most intelligent figures of all, this publication would be included as one of my suggested places to look.

In this publication, I too have been interviewed. In that interview, a central question that is considered is the topic of identifying who is really among the exceptionally and profoundly gifted, in the immeasurable range, and who is not. Publications such as this, while extremely helpful, do pose some risks. These risks are minor if one has the right strategy for reducing those risks. One of those risks is that the people who are respondents may sometimes be fabricating their intelligence and their histories, and may be providing some misinformation. We can’t underestimate how important it is to know that once people have invested time in creating a personal story, they will do quite a lot to protect it and perpetuate it. Some of the people who are even in the high intelligence communities themselves happen to be people who simply want to be perceived as being extremely intelligent, and will do much more than an average person would to keep their story going. In my response, I suggest using an informal method of analyzing conversation thinking about velocities relating to significance and ideation. More about this can be read in my interview response. The question as to charlatanism came directly from Mr. Jacobsen, and that’s partly because there is actually a genuine issue to be addressed. However, I don’t suggest too much reading caution, just the appropriate amount, because some of the most intelligent really are present in the publications. (The situation is different with relationship caution, and for that, read my response thoroughly). This is a very important series to keep the access to intelligent figures going, so that the public actually does have a way to know intelligent figures. For that purpose I can’t think of many other publications that are satisfactory, and for this and any other publication, some expectation of fabrication should be anticipated. This issue is ineradicable but should not prevent the more positive efforts from continuing. After one has noticed red flags in various works, the remainder can be read enjoyably, and as a result one will have a much better appreciation and understanding of intelligent people than if one was stuck only with popular media and entertainment, where that information seldom exists.

What is also great about this work, is that the answers from exceptional writers might seem unexpected. It would lead the reader to more fully understand what high intelligence arrives at, where the arrival is personal and not only academic. The surprising nature of the responses should be anticipated, because these thinkers may not be prominent, as I said, in the mainstream media. Since they are usually not present in the mainstream media, what they say will be very different from what is in the mainstream media, and that makes this publication even more interesting, because what will be read is something unusual and different than what one has otherwise had access to.

Foreword by Petros Gkionis, Philosopher

I would like to thank Scott Douglas Jacobsen for all the work he has done all these years. Inter viewing all these people and helping them get their thoughts out in public is a great act and de serves more recognition. This volume (Some Smart People: Views and Lives 13.) includes some interviews with people that have had high IQ scores, it could be interesting for some to look at how people like that think. So, if that’s something that may interest you then you can look at the content of the volume or at previous volumes and other interviews on his website.

One note: I don’t really take high range tests too seriously. They could be fun to do for some, but some questionable figures have used “1 in a billion” or similar scores to grift and I am definitely against that. I’ve seen some high scorers on high range tests promote Trump and Musk for dumb and immoral reasons and that makes me cringe. Anyway, I’m more in favor of tests developed by psychologists and statisticians that are published by companies like Pearson and are proctored by psychometricians when they are taken. Although, there are some problems with these too and usually they don’t measure scores that high because it’s difficult to do that properly and there are not designed for that, but mainly for the general population.It also includes 2 interviews Scott did with me back in 2023, some of my views have changed since then. I no longer am a Christian, but an atheist. I guess I could mention more about that in the third interview. But, it still is a window to how I used to think back then, so maybe it’s a cool thing to have. I am also pro-choice now, getting out of Christianity changed a few things. Ha haha.

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