It’s more like evolution just doesn’t give a shit about your cognitive abilities once you’ve reproduced…
Most people help their kids, and are pretty old once the kids have moved out, so it matters for most of your life.
Readit NewsJensson commented on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test planning.e-psychometrics.... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
Jensson commented on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test planning.e-psychometrics.... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
No, the Supreme Court ruled that you have to have a concrete business reason for implementing a test that is disproportionately likely to favour one ethnic group over another:
> The touchstone is business necessity. If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to job performance, the practice is prohibited.
Isn't that the same thing? Basically a business that believes hiring is better using IQ is not able to do so since the supreme court ruled that is racist.
Jensson commented on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test planning.e-psychometrics.... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
A lot of things are correlated. Let me know when causation is determined.
Also, your Vox link was pay-walled, but nevertheless, I am fairly well versed in some of the data. I have my own archive of research on this topic for what it is worth (not likely much).
Any hoot, the correlations, while positive, are nothing to write home about in my opinion. Sure, IQ might have more breadth of predictably, but it definitely lacks depth of predictably compared to more granular models depending on the domain.
For example, IQ is not a better predictor of chess performance than say a chess tournament.
> For example, IQ is not a better predictor of chess performance than say a chess tournament.
So we should determine who to give chess lessons to with chess tournaments? That seems pretty dumb.
There are many times where we don't want to select for current ability but for potential ability, and then a direct test like you suggest is a much worse predictor than IQ is.
Jensson commented on University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test planning.e-psychometrics.... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
It’s your brain working as intended.
As intended by whom?
Evolution.
Jensson commented on The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping ifstudies.org/blog/the-se... · Posted by u/impish9208
Jensson commented on The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping ifstudies.org/blog/the-se... · Posted by u/impish9208
Why Feminism? Isn't Feminism encouraging women to have more sex i.e sexual liberation, nudity is no longer a taboo, women are no longer constrained to a single man, all that jazz?
My understanding is that Conservatism encourages family values but at the cost of having less sexual partners (for example no sex before marriage) whereas Liberalism encourages the opposite.
> Isn't Feminism encouraging women to have more sex i.e sexual liberation, nudity is no longer a taboo, women are no longer constrained to a single man, all that jazz
That was 50 years ago, they are probably talking about how feminism changed since then.
Yeah, if you go to a subreddit like ClaudeAI, you convince yourself there’s something you don’t know because they keep telling people it’s all their prompt faults if the LLM isn’t turning them into billionaires.
But then you read more of the comments and you see it’s really different interpretations from different people. Some “prompt maximalists” believe that perfect prompting is the key to unlocking the model's full potential, and that any failure is a user error. They tend to be the most vocal and create a sense that there's a hidden secret or a "magic formula" you're missing.
Its basically making a stone soup, people wont believe it can be done, but then put a stone in water and boil it, and tell people if you aren't getting a nice soup you aren't doing it right, just put in all these other ingredients that aren't required but really helps and you get this awesome soup!
Then someone say that isn't stone soup, they just did all the work without the stone! But that is just a stone hater, how can you not see this awesome soup made by the stone?
I think you almost got what I was saying: once the winners emerge, they have the money to lobby laws in their favor.
> once the winners emerge, they have the money to lobby laws in their favor.
Only works in a flawed democracy, in better democracies people vote out corrupt leaders that only listen to lobbyists.
Perpetual vacation? Wow that would be great that is surely aim of every society. Unfortunately afaik majority people in europe are employed (75.8% of population) and thus have maybe 5 weeks (4 weeks minimum) of vacation. In USA the employment ratio is 59.6% so you could say that there are less people working in USA. But we all know its probably just misleading statistics because every company in US is trying not employ people but have them on some zero hour contract.
This fantasy of people not working just doesn't work. Who do you think stocks your supermarket, delivers your packages, bakes your bread, fixes your car? Are you saying it's bad that these people still manage have some social life and some fun? Should they be closed in their tiny increasingly overpriced flats so they don't polute the streets?
You have to be living in different tier of society but around me everybody taking second/odd jobs because their salaries froze 5 years ago didn't even keep up with inflation. Only people i know that are doing well are over 45 who became landlords by buying flats when it was possible.
> Unfortunately afaik majority people in europe are employed (75.8% of population) and thus have maybe 5 weeks (4 weeks minimum) of vacation.
A very large fraction of those work part time. We can see people work less and less over time, so when they said people work less that is just what the stats says.
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Jensson commented on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/floverfelt
That's because it's software / an application. I don't blame my editor for broken code either. You can't put blame on software itself, it just does what it's programmed to do.
But also, blameless culture is IMO important in software development. If a bug ends up in production, whose fault is it? The developer that wrote the code? The LLM that generated it? The reviewer that approved it? The product owner that decided a feature should be built? The tester that missed the bug? The engineering organization that has a gap in their CI?
As with the Therac-25 incident, it's never one cause: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036294
> You can't put blame on software itself, it just does what it's programmed to do.
This isn't what AI enthusiasts say about AI though, they only bring that up when they get defensive but then go around and say it will totally replace software engineers and is not just a tool.