Tbh Trivial pursuit can at least get you a pint or something, so realistically it has a bigger scope of application than an IQ test.
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Martin Alvito
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It's a decent metric if you're trying to measure innate computational speed, and make some predictions about little kids where there's little else to go on.
Clock speed also has little to do with the utility of a computer. Assuming we're both running something better than a potato, better software beats better hardware for most applications.
It's similar with humans, which is one reason for education.
I don't think the comparison is at all apt to be honest, the reliability of quantifying a computers speed to attempting to do so with humans is a totally different ball game
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Never worked with data in the social sciences, have you?
Questionable metrics are all we have. If we waited around for good ones, nothing would ever get done. People spend entire careers (and in economics, win Nobels) trying to find better ways to measure things.
Most of those efforts fail.
No need to get angry about it is there now, I'm aware of that from my experience with modelling systems, though as I've said have little experience with IQ since 6th form, my memory is of it being culturally and socially bias, given the intention is to measure innate intelligence it feels very flawed.
I'm sure you can take plenty from it and many will have done, but to compare the ability to quantify a humans innate intelligence to that of innate speed of a computer is hyperbolic and silly. IQ is largely an American right obsession which is red flag enough frankly. I doubt the statistical outcomes of of IQ testing are remotely comparable to that of a computer, unless you were looking for relationships to disprove IQ testing.
I've not but I've worked with data and computers and I can see what you're going for but the analogy is not all there - we'd be going into potential productivity and response times (etc. etc) with this analogy where everything will be important, not just the software. Also the "hardware" isn't irrelevant for humans in this case - yes, the "software" is important but the "clock speed" is how quickly you analyse and utilise the data you're presented with, but realistically to make it more accurate we have to go quantum computing to make it a totally similar analogy.
Either way, measuring things is fantastic, as is getting to know our universe better, but emotions and intelligence aren't one of those things that are easily quantified and any scale will have some sort of inherent bias towards a certain type of innate thinking (be it from upbringing, studying, inherent or inherited knowledge, etc.), social structure and other factors that are usually not taken into account as you also cannot quantify them either. The 400 IQ lad I mentioned was basically made by his father to study for those tests his entire life from like age 2 and he seems to have been pretty miserable doing it.
It's pretty telling that there's also not a single standardised one to be honest.
Either way, in funnier news - tech news front page today is Musk re-hiring the people he fired earlier from the supercharger network team. Ironically, the articles also confirm that it's the thing he's least involved with, which makes sense as they're pretty much the only solid and functional thing Tesla have lol
Watched a movie last night, and had this big, dumb meathead in it. Comically dumb, and all I could see was musk.
Saw one of Elon's Wankerpanzer's today:
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Found this passage describing seeing a cybertruck in-person quite funny:
What I can tell you is this: I saw my first Cybertruck stop at a red light near the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan on Sunday, and this car sucked in a way that had strangers on the sidewalk making Oh brother faces at each other. I could not have been better prepared to encounter this vehicle, and yet I was not prepared at all. It is one thing to have an image in your mind that roughly corresponds to "Albert Pyun's Homercar: 2049" and quite another to watch that actual vehicle turn, seemingly on drunken tiptoe, onto Columbus Avenue. It is an experience that everyone should have, I think. The stupid, tacky future that our culture's reigning mediocrities are making every day can feel abstract and almost poignant when encountered through a screen—a thing that no one but them wants, and which does not work very well, trying and failing to seem like progress. It is much more useful, I think, to see how ridiculous—how gaudy and cheap and patently unwantable—that future looks trying to navigate the world in which everyone else is trying to live.
I have come to terms with the cybertruck in a way I previously was not ready to understand. The role of the early adopter is to subsidize innovation for the rest of us; in that regard the early adopter is like the art investor, although the early adopter rarely gets any financial benefit for his or her investment. Their willingness to take risks has a large societal impact, and for that I'm grateful.
The cybertruck however is huge piece of junk, however, and I find it all very funny. In my middle aged and enlightened state I'm now comfortable holding my appreciation in one hand and laughter in the other and I feel no shame or remorse.
Yeah, that's a hard pass from me, thanks, you utter weirdo:
Haha, let us all fight child exploitation by posting pictures of them (probably without permission) on a site that billions of people can access.
Is he going to post pictures of all his kids and ex-wives that despise him?
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