The winner for Psychology made me think, for a moment, about HN: "Telling people they are intelligent correlates with the feeling of narcissistic uniqueness: The influence of IQ feedback on temporary state narcissism," by Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles E. Gignac. Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962... . The entire list is hilarious, and also makes you think. Go read the whole thing!

Oh boy… this is going to be a tough pill for me to swallow…

That's absolutely right!

I don’t imagine you meant to, but this triggers my LLM sense because of the way Claude Sonnet 4 responds to any critique.

Gemini thinking: The user is confused and mistaken

Gemini reply: That's an interesting and insightful question!

Ah, I understand the problem now.

I absolutely meant it

In your case, it's because you actually are smart

The plot goes deeper, and deeper. Maybe it is plots all the way down?

> Go read the whole thing!

No, if you're looking for a cure go read something about, say, quantum physics instead.

what if you understand quantum physics?

Then watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ZRLllWgHI

This quote always comes up. I think it is worth pointing out the age of this quote (look at the video!). We (physicists) didn’t understand quantum mechanics then. We do now.