'smartest man in the world'

More lost potential.
Perhaps he could have started better with a finer background.
Now his ideas are probably one of the things that keep him going.
He tries to uses his intellect to gain some superiority he otherwise would not have. His use of the bell curve to show how political leaders are seldom capable shows that he is able to make an analogy but this was no homology. He ignored the fact that there is more than probabilities which play in this.
As for his belief regarding the bigger brains I have to defend him, since he stated first that the Assumption was unscientific.
Perhaps if he could devote his time to some of the magical enigmas which are signed out with prize moneys for those who can solve them he might be able to show his intellect and do something for his social position.

I wasn't impressed by him either. His point that we don't have the right to breed with people of lower intellects is ridiculous. I wonder how intelligent he feels his abusive father was, and yet, Christopher, the uncanny polymath, was born of the abusive father (who we can at least agree didn't have enough social or psychological intelligence to know that violence is very disruptive and damaging to children).

Also, a blue whale brain is almost 20 pounds, whereas ours are about 3 lbs, yet clearly we consider ourselves more intellectual.

Also, he talks a lot about intelligent design and God as if they are provable. Not impressive to me. Admittedly, he has a good vocabulary, but not any better than my philosophy professors' lexicons from college.

Also, he tells the reporter "put me in charge" to solve this problem of having so many dunces in power, due to his claim that the average person votes only average people into office. Yet, he can't figure out how to run for elected office.

Also, he wrote the Cognitive Theory Model of the Universe. He obviously isn't clever enough to get a book deal to get him out of the violent atmosphere of being a bouncer in a bar, which he claims to want to leave. He told the interviewer "What makes you think I want to work in a violent atmosphere?" This guy has never heard of a job called librarian, which ostensibly would be a perfect fit for a genius.

Duh, I can't figure out how to get a non-violent job, but I authored I supposedly definite postulation on the nature of reality and I claim to be the smartest person I know of. Hmmm.

Just like the idiot architect from the Matrix part 2, having a strong vocabulary doesn't prove you are super-intelligent.

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