I think IQ is trainable.
Measure my IQ today,
Then measure my IQ after spending forty hours per week for six months relentless drilling IQ problems like a Tiger Mom would be proud of.. and watch how drastically I, or anyone who would do this experiment, would drastically improve at solving IQ test problems.
You can’t tell me that IQ is genetically fixed and that rigorously practicing IQ test problems for thousands of hours wouldn’t boost your score…
Measure my IQ today,
Then measure my IQ after spending forty hours per week for six months relentless drilling IQ problems like a Tiger Mom would be proud of.. and watch how drastically I, or anyone who would do this experiment, would drastically improve at solving IQ test problems.
You can’t tell me that IQ is genetically fixed and that rigorously practicing IQ test problems for thousands of hours wouldn’t boost your score…
One day in the not-so-distant future, nothing will be more important than figuring out how to engineer opening a functioning wormhole.
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
~Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
~Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
How does any politician justify with a straight face the fact that a state gets more seats in the House of Representatives if they have more illegal immigrants in their state since the representatives are counted based on population not just citizens? It seems like a glaring loophole that nobody on the left has ever actually justified. They have just kept it going.
Instead of saying whether the government should be bigger or smaller, more people should be opining on what the government should actually be spending money on and in what proportions. There’s always going to be tax collected. Might as well figure out the optimal way to spend it for the welfare of all citizens.
What are we going to replace illegal immigrant slave labor with?
Simple: Robots. 🤖
Simple: Robots. 🤖
If you’re skilled at tech, use your superpowers for something good and moral.
Don’t use your skills to maximize profit at the expense of souls.
Don’t build technology for whomever pays you the most.
Don’t maximize profit or shareholder value.
Use your limited time on this world to contribute to the well-being of others.
Don’t build advanced brainrot, build advanced medicine.
Don’t build engagement-maximizing slop, build something you find meaningful.
Change the world, even if society doesn’t reward it, for why would a sickly society reward that which accelerates its downfall?
Power through and maximize integrity, not the short term whims of a world gone mad.
Build something you believe in, deeply.
Don’t use your skills to maximize profit at the expense of souls.
Don’t build technology for whomever pays you the most.
Don’t maximize profit or shareholder value.
Use your limited time on this world to contribute to the well-being of others.
Don’t build advanced brainrot, build advanced medicine.
Don’t build engagement-maximizing slop, build something you find meaningful.
Change the world, even if society doesn’t reward it, for why would a sickly society reward that which accelerates its downfall?
Power through and maximize integrity, not the short term whims of a world gone mad.
Build something you believe in, deeply.
PER CAPITA:
Let’s take, as an example, the crime of robbery in a town where everyone either has a square or a star tattooed on their belly.
When you don’t use per-capita, you’re answering the question:
“If I get robbed, what are the odds the thief had a star on their belly or a square on their belly?”
But see, maybe the town has 99.99999% denizens with squares on their belly. So obviously if there’s a good chance if you get robbed, the thief has a square on their belly, just because there’s so many people with squares on their belly.
When you use per-capita, you answer the question:
“If I meet a random person with a star on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief? If I meet a random person with a square on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief?”
This is a different, and more meaningful, question, for its answer doesn’t change depending on how many people in the town have stars or squares on their belly.
Hope that helps.
Let’s take, as an example, the crime of robbery in a town where everyone either has a square or a star tattooed on their belly.
When you don’t use per-capita, you’re answering the question:
“If I get robbed, what are the odds the thief had a star on their belly or a square on their belly?”
But see, maybe the town has 99.99999% denizens with squares on their belly. So obviously if there’s a good chance if you get robbed, the thief has a square on their belly, just because there’s so many people with squares on their belly.
When you use per-capita, you answer the question:
“If I meet a random person with a star on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief? If I meet a random person with a square on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief?”
This is a different, and more meaningful, question, for its answer doesn’t change depending on how many people in the town have stars or squares on their belly.
Hope that helps.
Watching the new season of AppleTV’s adaptation of the famous sci-fi book series Foundation by Isaac Asimov!
I read all 7 books in 2023.
Published between 1951 and 1994 by Asimov (from 31 to 73 years old), I read them in plot chronological order instead of published order.
I read all 7 books in 2023.
Published between 1951 and 1994 by Asimov (from 31 to 73 years old), I read them in plot chronological order instead of published order.
Does a lab-grown steak truly have the same nutrients, effect on my digestive system, chemicals, health effects, 100% as a cut from a well-cared-for cow?
Is it truly a one-to-one replacement?
If I looked at each through a microscope would I see the same thing? And if not, does that affect how many body absorbs the molecules?
I’m all for cruelty-free meat, but maybe there are some health benefits that arise from eating an actual evolved animal like we evolved to do?
If not, and I’m thinking like a primitive ignoramus, then let’s actually see in data how close lab-grown meat is really to organic meat across a variety of dimensions.
Is it truly a one-to-one replacement?
If I looked at each through a microscope would I see the same thing? And if not, does that affect how many body absorbs the molecules?
I’m all for cruelty-free meat, but maybe there are some health benefits that arise from eating an actual evolved animal like we evolved to do?
If not, and I’m thinking like a primitive ignoramus, then let’s actually see in data how close lab-grown meat is really to organic meat across a variety of dimensions.
For every job lost at corporate Hollywood megaslop studio, ten new Indie filmmakers will get access to advanced CGI via AI.
For every random paper-pusher job lost in a hospital, ten new entrepreneurs will rapidly build a better nurse scheduling app via AI.
For every trucker driver’s job lost to a self-driving truck, ten new data labeler jobs will be required.
I believe that AI will gut plenty of jobs, because, well, a machine could do it. But while the fragile system we have may hemorrhage useless jobs as cogs in the corporate wheels, I think AI will give the individual dreamer the tools that were previously reserved for megacorps.
And that’s a good thing.
That’s egalitarian.
For every random paper-pusher job lost in a hospital, ten new entrepreneurs will rapidly build a better nurse scheduling app via AI.
For every trucker driver’s job lost to a self-driving truck, ten new data labeler jobs will be required.
I believe that AI will gut plenty of jobs, because, well, a machine could do it. But while the fragile system we have may hemorrhage useless jobs as cogs in the corporate wheels, I think AI will give the individual dreamer the tools that were previously reserved for megacorps.
And that’s a good thing.
That’s egalitarian.
I can’t wait until people dress well in public again,
Until cars and houses are full of color and not drab greys,
Until buildings and design are intricate instead of minimalist,
Until proper grammar is encouraged instead of being considered uncool,
Until high trust society is the norm again,
Until tough on crime is considered a virtuous position,
Until cheats and frauds and scammers and spammers are publicly shamed.
Let’s take the best parts of the past and push them into the future.
Until cars and houses are full of color and not drab greys,
Until buildings and design are intricate instead of minimalist,
Until proper grammar is encouraged instead of being considered uncool,
Until high trust society is the norm again,
Until tough on crime is considered a virtuous position,
Until cheats and frauds and scammers and spammers are publicly shamed.
Let’s take the best parts of the past and push them into the future.
One of the most common misconceptions about quantum entanglement as we understand it today is believing that it’s possible to send information faster than the speed of light.
Unfortunately, it’s like knowing flipping two coins in the opposite sides of the galaxy will end up landing the same way, heads or tails. But since you can’t control if they should end up heads or tails, knowing they’ll end up the same doesn’t allow you to communicate across the galaxy.
Unfortunately, it’s like knowing flipping two coins in the opposite sides of the galaxy will end up landing the same way, heads or tails. But since you can’t control if they should end up heads or tails, knowing they’ll end up the same doesn’t allow you to communicate across the galaxy.
I’ve spoken to several persons who’ve taken GLP-1’s and successfully used them to lose 30-40 lbs.
They all describe it not as feeling full all the time or hungry but uninterested in food, it was more just accidentally skipping meals and naturally only wanting smaller portions.
But they don’t describe it as intentional, they just end up feeling full quickly after eating a little and just not feeling hungry, having an almost indifference to food.
I wish more people who meditated (and are thus hyper-aware of their internal bodily sensations) got on GLP-1’s and described the subjective experience more to the rest of us.
We have a lot to learn about how it’s different from willpower.
They all describe it not as feeling full all the time or hungry but uninterested in food, it was more just accidentally skipping meals and naturally only wanting smaller portions.
But they don’t describe it as intentional, they just end up feeling full quickly after eating a little and just not feeling hungry, having an almost indifference to food.
I wish more people who meditated (and are thus hyper-aware of their internal bodily sensations) got on GLP-1’s and described the subjective experience more to the rest of us.
We have a lot to learn about how it’s different from willpower.
What if GPS systems immediately found alternative routes for everyone coming up to traffic the minute it detects even a small amount of slowdown?
A few “sacrificial lamb” cars would have a bit of time added to their ETA, but it would distribute the traffic load so the whole system flowed smoother and individual pockets of traffic wouldn’t build up from yellow to red.
So instead of, during rush hour, pockets of red on the traffic map with yellow nearby the red, it would be a wider more distributed area of yellow.
I suspect this algorithm would actually clear the traffic faster than allowing it to pile up, and increase there flow rate (think clogged pipes in fluid dynamics math) would increase cumulatively.
A few “sacrificial lamb” cars would have a bit of time added to their ETA, but it would distribute the traffic load so the whole system flowed smoother and individual pockets of traffic wouldn’t build up from yellow to red.
So instead of, during rush hour, pockets of red on the traffic map with yellow nearby the red, it would be a wider more distributed area of yellow.
I suspect this algorithm would actually clear the traffic faster than allowing it to pile up, and increase there flow rate (think clogged pipes in fluid dynamics math) would increase cumulatively.