Ethnorainbolt
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Ethnorainbolt
@ethnorainbolt
Skeptic, optimist, present. Panpsychist, empiricist, anti-moralist, life-affirming. Conservative. High OCA; low EN (Big 5). 1600 SAT. Immigrant. Statistician.
USA Katılım Temmuz 2023
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@catboosted yup, but alexandr, mercor, cursor team keep the dream alive for better or worse
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<whatever someone recently did that impressed me> is the most accurate measure of intelligence.
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1
Vocabulary is way better at measuring intelligence. It is not even close.
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But the more irritating part of this post was the claim that what they are about to describe is not stupidity, followed by an inadvertently inaccurate description of stupidity.
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No part of this is an accurate description of any difference in intelligence—people universally understand jokes and metaphors, think in long horizons etc. It’s embarassing that this person thinks that their ability to do these things makes them high IQ.
Jøhnathan@Heavenly_Race_
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.
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@davmre @gro_tsen @laurentbercot How does "a" give a second chance to win on the next turn? At that point you've lost because you've typed "aa," right?
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@gro_tsen @laurentbercot For "aa", starting from 'a' there's only one useful next letter: you need a second 'a', else you're back to square one.
For "az", from 'a' there are two useful next letters: 'z' wins immediately, 'a' gives a second chance to win on the next turn. So E[steps to win] is lower.
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You see the “this proves Clavicular’s point” sentiment a lot; it’s because Clavicular’s point is the most obvious point ever made and the only reason it’s even considered a point being made is because the world’s been living in fantasy for the last decade
Tayoncé Defense Attorney@lesbeyonsay
this kinda proving clavicular's point that being attractive will get you anywhere... y'all don't know this guys opinions or political leanings but assume he's good bc he's attractive hskhkd😭
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Incredible loss of value over the years due to the humanities/math split. Lots of important work siloed away to math people that other generations would have had their smartest (humanities) working on. Math people have no interest in this work and are interested only in games.
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@StefanFSchubert This is true of everything in entertainment.. Nothing atypical about chess
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Chess is a really atypical profession. When we watch chess, we don't just care about the objective quality of the moves: we care about them having been decided by a human.
By contrast, when we hire a doctor or an accountant we typically just care about the output.
Dr. Dominic Ng@DrDominicNg
Chess is 30 years ahead of every other profession in dealing with AI. The best case study we have for what's coming. 4 lessons: 1. Human-AI collaboration had a 15-year shelf life in chess. "Human in the loop" is a phase.
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@faustianwigger No, it’s because of his status. And we’ve already seen that many times.
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Clavicular's influence reaches your classmates, your coworkers, your boss, your mom and dad—even the Oscar's—despite claims of misogyny, clips of him saying the n-word, singing the Hitler song; things that would have ended anyone else, solely and completely due to his looks
FearBuck@FearedBuck
Conan O'Brien used Clavicular’s terminology at the Oscars
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@DanielR00191707 @ESRogs @cremieuxrecueil For college admissions, yeah. But I found it much easier to prepare myself to a 1550 level than to a 1600 level
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@ethnorainbolt @ESRogs @cremieuxrecueil No college admissions officer makes a serious distinction between anything 1500+
And 1550-1600 is identical
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The "giant blob" for the SAT (which is on a 1600 scale, not 2400 anymore) is 1/10th the size of the Ivy League incoming class.
IOW: It doesn't exist.
Andrew Granato@agranato42
An under-told story: the returns to the insane high school extracurricular arms race would diminish significantly if the SAT and ACT would make the test harder so that there wasn’t a giant blob of people with ~2400 or ~36 scores.
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@ethnorainbolt @ESRogs @cremieuxrecueil No, a ton of students are in the 1550-1600 range and the score they get is random, just depends on if they make a random bubbling mistake
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@ESRogs @cremieuxrecueil You want to distinguish them with noise..?
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@cremieuxrecueil Add in some noise. If there are a bunch of people in the high 1500s, you're still probably not distinguishing them as well as you could.
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@StoicYield @upstatefederlst Leftists convince themselves to believe whatever they want to believe
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@upstatefederlst I thought people were joking but people genuinely think they legally can’t call it a burger
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Does everyone really not understand they're making a light joke at the CEO's expense here or is everyone just pretending to not understand?
McDonald's@McDonalds
take a bite of our new product
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