Tuple<"Do you expect these chucklefucks to ever release a full stable 1.0 let alone 2.0?", "Perhaps one day Urbitals will release a text I'm simultaneously drunk enough and not too drunk to read.">
BTW the latter string in English evaluates to false.
I dare wish for TechTakes to embody its spirit, not in the sense of replicating all of its problematic aspects, but possibly in the sense of using "a hackernews" and to a lesser extent "an internet" as a somewhat (very) derogatory pronoun.
I remember when markov chains used to produce this exact form of perpetually looped gibberish, and most folks accepted it was an artifact from statistically completing the next token, not proof of god
Me too, but in part because I saw an IRC bot made in some 30 lines of Python do exactly that less than a month ago.
Ignoring HN illiteracy that might be mostly on Elon Musk. Xitter [ˈʃɪɾ.ɚ] as of now doesn't show the full thread unless you're logged in. Surely this will have no impact on its (already inflated) perceived credibility and usefulness as a news source.
Allow me to sum up my relationship with the orange site with a lightly edited quote of Dennis Ritchie from The UNIX-HATERS Handbook:
Here is my metaphor: your ~~book~~ website is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain ~~life for some~~ interest to computerniks like me. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of ~~contempt and of envy~~ silicon valley chauvinism.
Haha it's [flagged] now. The fragile orangicity :D
Even when understood as appropriately dystopic, the citadel story is still sneerworthy as it gives way too much credence to buttcoins. Inasmuch as the citadel situation is not already here, it is/won't be coiners specifically but the capitalist owner class in general that does/will lord over the rest of us in their ivory towers of paranoia and greed. That class may incidentally include a handful of coiners who beat the massive odds, but does/probably will contain more finance leeches of a more traditional kind.
Even in its original conception the whole story basically validates a Stonetoss comic (here's a funny edited version that probably lets you get the gist of it I'm not gonna link a nazi webcomic thanks for understanding) and that's super cringe.
HN user tarsinge putting it perfectly here
The entire article reads like a stealth sneer.
Is it "consistency of results on a single IQ test type"? Not really. Wikipedia says: […]
That's a best-case scenario for tests designed with that criteria as a priority, and the range is still significant.
Is it "consistency of results across different IQ test types"? Not really; that's obviously worse than the above, and many "non-IQ" tests have comparable consistency.
Yea to be fair to IQ tests horoscopes are also really inconsistent.
Is it "practice being mostly irrelevant"? Not really. A few practice runs can often be worth +8 points
Is it "working for an unusually wide range of intelligence"? Not really. IQ tests are notorious for working poorly above ~135
Wow, sounds like IQ tests kinda suck. Maybe we shouldn't place so much importance on them.
and I'd say they only really work well for -20 to +0 relative to the designers, with a somewhat wider range for teams.
My ACT score was in the top 0.1%, but I don't feel particularly proud of that, because it wasn't evaluating any of my actual strengths. I left college after a semester (while that was a failure from the perspective of society, school was holding me back intellectually) but I still took the GRE for...reasons...and got a top 1% score without studying, but that's not something I consider particularly meaningful either. Here's a theory of Alzheimer's I developed - what test score does that correspond to? As for IQ tests, I had a couple proper ones as a kid, and my scores were probably as high as was very meaningful, but probably less impressive than reading Feynman in 3rd grade.
Spoiler tagging this doesn't make it not an irrelevant humblebrag.
It might not be as objective, but people could compete on aesthetics too.
Oh shit, this guy invented art competitions!
When people smarter than the test designers take an IQ test, they often have to guess what the designers were thinking, but with video games, evaluation can be completely objective.
Guessing what a test designer thinks is a cognitive task so surely high G people can do it better. I don't see the problem.
The bandwidth and scope possible with video games is much higher than with IQ tests. You can test people with bigger problems, like remembering the units in Wargame Red Dragon, and multidisciplinary challenges, like optimizing both cost and visuals of fireworks in Kerbal Space Program; そういえば、ゲームのウィキの英語を理解することはまたテストのもう一つの側面でしょう.
Random-ass Japanese for no reason. Weeb detected. Ironic how the non-English sentence muses about testing proficiency in reading English.
I propose that from here on out people will be ranked by a test that involves dad jokes and making spiteful remarks about TESCREAL fandom.
Wrote the sequences to train all of us mere mortals with 140-160IQs to think better.
This mere mortal with a 14-16 inch dick expresses his doubts.
Yudkowski verbosely expositing basic logical fallacies and cognitive biases didn't teach me much that I hadn't already gleaned myself or been taught by middle school age. Am I smarter than the 140-160IQ geniuses^1^ or was there just something that revolutionary in the sequences I failed to appreciate because I'm not in top one in million intellect^2^?
1: Yes I am.
2: Also definitely yes.
Imagine that, investment having a risk associated with it!
Complaining about software being written in C starts to feel a bit unfair when so many devs openly admit to generating their code using a program that has nothing but undefined behavior.