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mircea_popescu: i can formulate the flight equivalent of
iq ; you can not formulate the cognitive equivalent of energy.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: i'm half tempted to temporarily lower my
iq with drugs just to understand "them" better...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> ~the~
iq test. << "variant thought" and
iq are at best orthogonal.
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2016 09:09:11; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413452 << when they stopped making sluts that go on breadboards, they "got to him". what's to get. suppose you marry a woman on the criteria of she's fucking hot, and she keeps making you children and they all have the
iq of an argentine. how long do you keep up the charade of "this here is a house of intellectual ppls" ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413452 << when they stopped making sluts that go on breadboards, they "got to him". what's to get. suppose you marry a woman on the criteria of she's fucking hot, and she keeps making you children and they all have the
iq of an argentine. how long do you keep up the charade of "this here is a house of intellectual ppls" ?
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: as the saying goes, #b-a presence counts for 30
iq points.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i was thinking the other day. bitcoin just has scammers. just as the world is filled with worms. pirateat40 was very low
IQ scammer. then mt. gox tried to hide a little better not by alot.
mircea_popescu: "edmundedgar 6 points 1 hour ago Why weren't people like this around when they were designing CSS?" << also, buttcoin is about 50
iq points over bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: average ustard is, i would guess, a 110 to 115
iq college graduate whose 110 to 115
iq is composed of 150+
iq in beating himself up, 25
iq in establishing relationships and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: punkman so it does huh. except it's a weird thing, i've seen this lots in us-born slavegirls. woman could be well above 100
iq, think herself stupid, and indeed exhibit ~30-50
iq in selected fields.
ascii_field: but yes, the machines were expensive and the room temp
iq folks were kept out.
ascii_field has a very distinct feeling, prompted by last night's thread, that he is failing a kind of economic
iq test
mircea_popescu: the reason "notation is worth 30
iq points" is specifically that good notations = properly crystallized topic.
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2015 03:51:15; cazalla: BingoBoingo, oh yeah, retards with an
IQ of 60 always manage to score critical headshots and kill 30 odd people all the time here!
cazalla: BingoBoingo, oh yeah, retards with an
IQ of 60 always manage to score critical headshots and kill 30 odd people all the time here!
☟︎ Naphex: but it's pure crazyness you shouldn't even be able to fall for this shit with a
IQ higher than 75
mircea_popescu: and so is f(x) = x/this guy's
IQ. for crying out loud.
diana_coman: asciilifeform> don't discount the
iq hit apparently imposed by spawning <- interesting theory, as a mother of a 3yo I can say that the only way I can see that work is mainly due perhaps to sleep deprivation
jurov: and statistics are? all people with
iq > 120 use lisp?
decimation: all of the testing amounts to 'unofficial
iq tests', as far as I can tell
decimation: but two
iq 90 parents are likely to have children that score a little closer to 100
ascii_field: to help their collective
iq move into the double digits at least
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 17:00:45; ascii_field: it is the ultimate '
iq test'
mircea_popescu: the minds are scarcely the problem. which is part of why i credit so little the entire "
iq" verbiage. if
iq were the determining factor in anything we'd be living on the moon already.
davout: asciilifeform: just because something is easy for a guy with 200
IQ doesn't mean it's as easy for two dudes with 100
IQ mircea_popescu: the flagon full of hydrogen is a very boring Africa of "
IQ" because it never produces the fun looking lasers other compositions produce.
mircea_popescu: 2) if the recipient is full of identical molecules... you STILL get normal distribution of "
IQ"
mircea_popescu: so... is type or circumstance more impactful in the
iq of a given molecule ?
mircea_popescu: so : suppose we're looking at a recipient of defined gas, and each molecule's "
iq" is its kinetic momentum.
decimation: are you with funkenstein - there's no genetic basis for
IQ?
cazalla: decimation, i use to read his stuff but i think he has an over-inflated sense of his own intelligence (some
IQ video of his rubbed me the wrong way.. coulda been this, coulda been that, coulda been a dr type shit)
gabriel_laddel: <funkenstein_> if you are missing a good water supply you are also not going to be the next satoshi << ;; google east asian malnutrition
IQ mircea_popescu: i used to say b-a increases one's
iq by a good chunk of points
ascii_field: and to this well-known maxim i will add mine, 'giving a fuck about the problem is worth 100
iq points'
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 04:52:20; mircea_popescu: but to belabour the point : one of the principal reasons "measuring
iq" as it were height is so ridiculous, is because nobody has yet had an off day for height.
mircea_popescu: but to belabour the point : one of the principal reasons "measuring
iq" as it were height is so ridiculous, is because nobody has yet had an off day for height.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: however, if you add all the smarts people assign themselves and divide by the ... like i dunno, 5000 or so total
iq points available for the bn or so english speakers, you roughly get infinity.
decimation: actually he is making exactly the same error that you claim the
iq testing guys are making
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:38:28; asciilifeform: if there were a 'rural militia' with above room-temperature
iq, usa would already look like iraq
decimation: at any rate, the "
iq" thing seems more useful when applied on the population level
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel it occurs to me the templeos guy is kinda high
iq gabriel_laddel: if
iq tests worked we'd have usable software. << see symbolics inc
mircea_popescu: as average
iq keeps dropping and average intelligence drops with the square of the
iq, and as complexity increases like a fucking cube of time or something, there's bound to be more and more of these.
mircea_popescu: i mean yeah that's how it works for the retarded, 75 to 90
iq thestringpuller: almost like dropping the
IQ of their peers by merely existing
mircea_popescu: anyway, thus understood, you will find that a woman trained to be intelligent, irrespective of
iq, is quite to your liking, whereas one untrained, equally irrespective of measured
iq, is quite unpalatable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i srsly doubt
iq points measure anything useful.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mebbe if you ignore it it goes away, and the room average
iq jumps a coupla points.
nubbins`: seems like punkbot is the
iq tes
decimation: the us has plenty of high
iq people, it's just that in general their efforts are misdirected into idiocy
mircea_popescu: i found teaching idiots (literally, 70ish
iq) a lot easier and more palatable than teaching "normal" kids.
mircea_popescu: same thing as discussing "average
iq" or other similar insanities born out of an inability to statistics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the earlier discussion about
iq, say, in the recent days.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the paper isn't arguring "better" simply that
iq holds for races across environments.
gabriel_laddel: l children can do them in less than one second. More intelligent children, measured by conventional
IQ tests, perform faster on these tasks. East Asians average faster reaction times than Whites who, in turn, have faster reaction times than Blacks."
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: from linked paper "National IQs have been reported for 192 countries around the world. The results show that the average
IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; for US Blacks about 85, and for sub-Saharan African Blacks about 70. The same rank-order of race differences is found for ‘‘culture-fair’’ tests and reaction-time measures. Reaction-time tasks are so easy that al
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: "the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood." really now? I looked into this, there is no debate on the matter of race /
iq / genetics (there is however, lots of screaming). What genes specifically determine
iq is definitely up for debate.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu:
IQ isn't all physiology, ie, genetics. Your
iq is in part dependent on your epileptics. So, yes, "there’s a lot to the functioning of the brain that’s purely cultural, and thus ethnic" but that "black kids immersed into white culture could in principle get the same
IQ measurements as white kids" does not follow. Blacks have smaller brains and lower
iq because of their genetics - placing them in a