WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

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Frederick Weber said:
Good video, I saw some of the stuff on his grandfather being educated but didn't read much into his family history, particularly about how successful his dad is. The fact that he's a Harvard-educated multimillionaire lawyer was surprising given how Rudyard is of very middling (if not less) intelligence. I think that Rudyard may seriously have high functioning autism or something like that, because it's very odd that the rest of his family seem significantly smarter and more educated than he is. Given how highly heritable intelligence is specifically, Rudyard is either extremely unlucky genetically or he has some kind of intellectual impairment.
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Lindy64 said:
Is he stupid or just overestimating his own intelligence? Because I wouldn't call him stupid on his own, just egotistical
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I don’t think he’s outright dumb, per se, just not the genius prodigy he thinks he is. He clearly knows some things, but he overestimates his competence.

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Lindy64 said:
Is he stupid or just overestimating his own intelligence? Because I wouldn't call him stupid on his own, just egotistical
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Well, he's really all of those things. I made a post earlier with the evidence of this, but he's admittedly average intelligence or below (years later claiming it's actually much higher), he does poor on many metrics relating to intelligence (grades, standardized tests, dropped out of college, he failed his driver's test 5 times, etc.), and he even said on the IQ test he performed worst on the subtests most correlated with actual mental ability. The problem is that Rudyard is involved with the dissident right enough to know that intelligence is extremely important in determining life outcomes, particularly if he wants to be some grand intellectual, because no person of average intelligence is going to become a revolutionary thinker. He clearly wants to be more important than he can possibly biologically be, which is why he supports extremely fringe opinions about IQ not measuring intelligence and endorses the completely unfounded hypothesis of multivariate intelligence to find some way to claim he's as intelligence as he thinks he should be.

Anon88 said:
He clearly isn't completely retarded because there's some information in his videos that is correct it's just mixed in with crazy takes and random stuff in-between. It's almost like all he really knows is just basic historical facts and for some reason thinks he an expert on everything there is about history, philosophy and culture which is why his videos are so laughable.
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I definitely agree, and it's mostly a product of him reading so much. He pretty much regurgitates the information from any book he reads (as long as he agrees with it) uncritically in his videos. Rudyard reads tons of book so inevitably he's bound to get a lot right since many of these books are written by people who know what they're talking about, but he lacks the critical thinking ability and general intelligence to properly assess these works or go into depth about them.

As an example, his entire video of "How Death Creates Everything" is primarily based on the book "The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life" by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The problem is that the book is just a reiteration of the authors' work on terror management theory, which is derived from Freudian psychoanalysis, and has greatly diminished in significance due to their experiments have failed replication 21 times. From the wikipedia, "In addition to the criticisms from alternative theoretical perspectives, a large-scale attempt by Many Labs 4 to replicate published findings failed to replicate the mortality salience effect on worldview defense under any condition.[61] The test is a multi-lab replication of Study 1 of Greenberg et al. (1994).[27] Psychologists in 21 labs across the U.S. re-executed the original experiment among a total of 2,200 participants." Keep in mind, I just looked up the author of the book to get some context and found all of these criticisms in maybe a few minutes, so this not some obscure hidden knowledge Rudyard would never have found if he simply searched for a little bit.

People believe he's smart because he reads a lot of books and can list a bunch of facts, but his thinking abilities are laughable if you pay any attention. He fails to ever elaborate on anything in sufficient depth, to the point that I don't believe he can even explain why he believes certain things, such as when he failed to adequately explain why he believes race is real other than saying his friends who are experts believe in it or when someone asked him to define God and he said that everyone knows what it is so he doesn't have to explain it. Furthermore, he constantly contradicts himself because the terms he describes are so vague they can apply to almost anything, and he often will just make up numbers/statistics or claim that every statistic he doesn't like is manipulated Soviet Union style.

Rudyard crashes out on a guy on twitter after he thinks the guy called him poor. For some unknown reason, he also mentions that he's 6'4 and inadvertently brags about how he's hiked the Appalachian trail and ran a social club in LA in the very same statement which he says that he won't brag about it.
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Frederick Weber said:
Rudyard crashes out on a guy on twitter after he thinks the guy called him poor. For some unknown reason, he also mentions that he's 6'4 and inadvertently brags about how he's hiked the Appalachian trail and ran a social club in LA in the very same statement which he says that he won't brag about it.
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This dude's so transparently insecure. "I'm clearly not a loser or underperforming." Who is he trying to convince here? Because it sure as hell sounds like it's himself.
 
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Frederick Weber said:
Rudyard crashes out on a guy on twitter after he thinks the guy called him poor. For some unknown reason, he also mentions that he's 6'4 and inadvertently brags about how he's hiked the Appalachian trail and ran a social club in LA in the very same statement which he says that he won't brag about it.
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This nigga is literally impossible to strawman, or misrepresent. He says to people verbatim what I would have him say in my head to an imaginary troll (Except driving an Audi). When you can perfectly predict an outcome given an input... you know you're dealing with a programmed behavior, aka... an NPC.
 
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Doinker Marmalade said:
This nigga is literally impossible to strawman, or misrepresent. He says to people verbatim what I would have him say in my head to an imaginary troll (Except driving an Audi). When you can perfectly predict an outcome given an input... you know you're dealing with a programmed behavior, aka... an NPC.
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If I had any photoshop skills I'd put Rudy's face over the Adoring Fan's.
 
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Ya know what, I'll actually stand for Ruddy and say that it is possible he got an unduly low score on his IQ test because he was in a bad spot and not testing well. He should take it again if he really thinks he tested poorly.
 
waffle said:
Ya know what, I'll actually stand for Ruddy and say that it is possible he got an unduly low score on his IQ test because he was in a bad spot and not testing well. He should take it again if he really thinks he tested poorly.
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If he was tested as a kid and couldn't sit still or focus then it would negatively impact his score in a way that isn't necessarily reflective of his processing ability.
 
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Come on Ruddy, retake the test. It's only upsides, really. You can continue to cope and seethe about how it is impossible for you to have a 95IQ. Or you can test 130+, slam your dick on the table and go on a tirade about how one bad day almost destroyed the life of a mega-chad brain-maxer such as your self.
 
Anon88 said:
We’ve been insulting his honor for quite some time now. When is he going to fight one of us?
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He claims to be 6'4 but with his posture and build, he shouldn't be a difficult fight.

Elite Kipchak said:
he hasn't done one of his schizo youtube polls in over a month, the absence of a civil war really got him spiraling :(
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A look at his Twitter feed shows how bad his inner state is.
 
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Samhain said:
This dude's so transparently insecure. "I'm clearly not a loser or underperforming." Who is he trying to convince here? Because it sure as hell sounds like it's himself.
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As we can see in @Mudkipcorn post most of his family are far more successful than minor e-celeb and internet schizo he is. So of course he is insecure.
 
Radola Gajda said:
As we can see in @Mudkipcorn post most of his family are far more successful than minor e-celeb and internet schizo he is. So of course he is insecure.
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He honestly doesn't even have anything to be insecure about, he DOES have a channel with 700,000 subscribers, which is nothing to scoff at.
Even if all of what he brags about (Audi, house) was bought with daddy's money... there's literally nothing wrong with that, unless you're an insane lefty.

He could shrug and laugh off all criticism easily, but the insane delusions of grandeur, the obvious chip on his shoulder, and his insistence on being respected by strangers is what earns him all this ridicule.
 
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