The figures (150 verbal IQ, etc.) seem to be plucked out of thin air, and the central idea---that there would be an IQ 'threshold' separating people who can be successful/good writers from those who can't---similarly backed by nothing. Where is even a hint of what a mechanism for such a threshold might be?
Readit Newshcta commented on Math vs. Writing: difficulty and threshold effects greyenlightenment.com/202... · Posted by u/paulpauper
hcta commented on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/eatitraw
It's all in the preamble before the later sections of learning and my implicit point was that my social awkwardness got better when I stopped trying to show off how smart I am. It still comes out occasionally, and I don't try to be condescending, so I do really appreciate my close friends when they give me feedback when I am.
My other point though is that as people using AI to generate content take the time to tell ChatGPT that it sounds like ChatGPT and to rewrite it to not sound like that, that people are going to be suspicious of anything recondite that isn't in common parlance. But I'm a believer in xkcd 810, so what can I say.
Trying to show off how smart one is is probably part of the motivation behind many interesting comments posted on here, and more generally, a big motivation behind a huge number of the useful things people do. Doing it in a non-obvious way requires additional ingenuity. The cumulative effect of people trying to show off how smart they are has undoubtedly greatly accelerated the development of our species.
hcta commented on Ask HN: Looking for a good course to learn proof assistant Lean 4 · Posted by u/rabarbers
I located this course https://github.com/ATOMSLab/LFSE2024 with video lectures @ https://www.youtube.com/@tylerjosephson8860 . Let us know if it's good
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hcta commented on Steve Wozniak's Perforated Pads of $2 Bills (2015) coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n... · Posted by u/CharlesW
This guy was (is) a whole other level of genius.
I am getting down-voted (for saying I did not know of this word, which is wild), but I asked a couple of people from the US and UK and they could not tell what it means, not without a dictionary.
It is a small sample, but you could ask your family and friends.
Plus, I still prefer something that most if not all people know: news-teller over herald, so I would have translated it to that.
if you're going to claim that something is not a valid translation of a word, you should probably know what it means first--duh?
> We recruited a total of 54 participants for Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 18 participants among them completed session 4.
> We used electroencephalography (EEG) to record participants' brain activity in order to assess their cognitive engagement and cognitive load
> We performed scoring with the help from the human teachers and an AI judge (a specially built AI agent)
Next up: your brain on psych studies
That is a really depressing read. A person shot and killed in cold blood, and these online heros pretty much condone it. This will be awful for his family.
They have each made the individual choice not to invest more effort in solving the case, the same as you have probably done.
>what is the point?
Is that a serious question? You are talking about two groups of people who are fighting because, while they both believe there is a magic man in the sky, they each believe he only loves their side and not the other. And you expect rationality?
"so-and-so is crazy, so nothing they do can be explained" is right up there with intelligent design as a useless paradigm for understanding the world.
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