>>81532270
Get into game hacking. It'll pipeline you into genuine malware dev which leads to enterprise level AV/XDR bypassing, container escapes, etc. All things that require a fairly high IQ to be capable of doing.
Hobbyist quant stuff also has some fairly smart people floating around.
There's plenty of pisscord servers for both, but the goal isn't to stay in large, public ones. Just use them to get into the private ones with the kool kids.