aardvark
1yr ago
If you have subjects who are not cooperative for sugar blood tests, and eat a lot before blood sample is taken, is it a problem of blood tests?
I can think IQ tests duration is limited to 30-60 minutes so willingness to cooperate has little effect (for most individuals) even if it makes measurement of intellect per se less precise.
Note for some important things willingness to cooperate matters more than intelligence! Just there isn't a good method to measure it, and it's much more prone to change than intelligence.
aardvark
1yr ago
...hm, could we use GoF to get rid of mosquitoes and other carriers of human diseases?
aardvark
1yr ago
Chess is a lot less in a sense that very crude algorithm which evaluates trees is enough to beat an average human, because of low branching quotient and it's a perfect information game. Games with incomplete information require more complex AI.
aardvark
1yr ago
With all that progress in machine learning, WHEN will be we able to upscale frame rate of old animes from effective 5-8 fps to 60 fps?
Early pre-neural network attempt (SVP) is about as effective as nil, older DAIN still leaves a lot to be desired.
aardvark
1yr ago
Don't think "small" in modern population size or modern area of country, think population share at the time when the events happened. In 19th century, Africa was less populated than Europe and was growing at slower rate.
aardvark
1yr ago
I have issues as well, but then I also grew to hate programming.
You can use nicotine in plaster form ah I see you already have a solution.
aardvark
1yr ago
You can print source code on paper. Some programming contests allow it (those where team of 3 has only 1 computer but can use printer).
aardvark
1yr ago
Has someone generated ML sets of pictures to play Dixit/Imaginaium, or something in that direction?
Btw, the meatspace game is unnecessarily long with operating cards.
aardvark
1yr ago
I heard some people migrate between hemispheres to be in summer all the time
aardvark
1yr ago
Spending all day is cruel, executioners should unionize and limit it to 8-hour work shifts.
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They probably got paid, and maybe even explained why their work is important.
aardvark
1yr ago
The implied point is that given same IQ, poverty is advantage for math contests.
Math is low, very low status.
America-born individuals very much prefer going into positions where they can exploit value of labor by foreign-born high IQ individuals. They don't need math.
aardvark
1yr ago
No they claim that racial purity
HBD advocates claim that if you mix two populations of same size, IQ of mix would be very close to average of these ancestral populations. Don't they? What does this have to do with racial purity?
aardvark
1yr ago
Nope, it doesn't.
Suppose (numbers random for sake of example)
QoL depends on phenotypic IQ & how good government is. Phenotypic IQ depends on genetic IQ and QOL.
PIQ = GIQ + QOL
QOL = 0.3 * PIQ + 0.7 * government quality
Yes government seems more important looking at coefficient, but ultimately government is function of genetic IQ too, just in more complex and indirect way.
aardvark
1yr ago
What are you talking about? Pz 3&4 were worse than T-34 and they were unable to penetrate armor of KV-1 heavy tanks, Germany started to use heavy tanks noticeably later and in small quantities because they were overengineered. The only thing better was radios, and that every tank was equipped with it rather than select ones (in Soviets).
Americans didn't need to put much effort in tanks because tanks weren't useful in terrain where they fought Japanese.
aardvark
1yr ago
Certain genetic changes can occur quickly, suppose you have many inbred groups, and due to something (easier transportation, cultural bans on incest) it can change in 1 generation. Some countries are still noticeably inbred.
To add to others said, reduced pathogen load compared to 100 years ago (due to vaccines and hygiene) also probably improved IQs too.
if we accept that the IQ numbers for Africa are the result of a culturally-unbiased assessment of intelligence
The most common estimate held in HBD is that black Africans IQ would improve by 10-15 points if living standards improved to that 1st world has.
a society of actually literally retarded people, which it is not.
In what sense?
They live lives, make social bonds, love, children, you don't need high intelligence for that.
aardvark
1yr ago
Women are more likely to be conformist and vote for whoever has the power. In Russia, women are more likely to support Putin than men (at least it was so before 2022)
aardvark
1yr ago
The Germany is influential enough so they can buy a lot of gas from Russia which could translate into supplies for the war
A large amount of dog owners talk in such matter, but it isn't unclear if it's plurality or majority. And I think that people who have such vulgar "dog intelligence" concept deny utility of IQ tests.
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