there is your baseline of intelligence, and then there is your degree of psychopathy and brainwashing, which diminishes you from your natural capacity

brainwashing cuts off whole swathes of thought process possibilities, so it clouds the appearance of intelligence

i'm brainwashed in some areas too, and those areas i act really dumb, mainly around saying no to people, and consuming intoxicating materials, that's partly why i play up the GFY in my online persona, i'm trying to break it

and i agree that at least for now you have to be around 120 to even be on nostr, i'm 150, though age and my bad habits have probably corroded that at least 5% maybe 15% - my memory is still pretty sharp, but i'm more forgetful than i used to be, which is balanced out by having trained myself into habits that protect me from forgetting

oh and i have bad impulse control... landed on my head a lot as a child and probably was poisoned by antifungal treatments used on the orange farms near where i spent my first year, i'm not hyperkinetic but my mind doesn't stop humming