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- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 3 hours ago:
IQ being one number is like SATs…
It’s an average of a bunch of different subjects, one of which is “crystalized intelligence” which is basically trivia pursuit. You have to miss 3 questions in a row, when I was tested I ran out of questions because I never missed three in a row. It took forever.
Which means that it is linked to e.g. corruption, education, crime?
The root cause is resource scarcity. All those other problems can lead to that.
If you want to look more into that specifically, look into the "marshmallow test’ and how being able to wait for a largest reward is the largest signal of success as an adult. Resource scarcity makes us take the guaranteed small payoff instead of waiting.
Those changes as a child follow us our whole lives. It’s one of a handful of things that’s set for life by the time we’re toddlers along with in group/out group.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 4 hours ago:
Because values change as the respective IQ average and culture differs across countries and especially continents.
An important part of understanding IQ tests is they account for Western education.
Like, there’s an assumption that someone knows certain things, one of the trivial pursuit questions is “who wrote How to Kill a Mockingbird”.
To measure a substantially different culture’s IQ, they’d need their own bespoke test.
The other stuff about nutrition plays into differences inside of western culture, but resource scarcity changes our brains and how they work. Poverty doesn’t make us stupid, it just makes us prioritize day to day, second to second. Planning ahead is a luxury.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 13 hours ago:
Because there’s always a possible path out of the forest…
Sometimes the path gets dark, sometimes it changes directions.
But there’s always a path thru it.
- Comment on Markov Chains: The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything - Veritasium 16 hours ago:
Chad atheist commie mathematician
Markov was less a communist and more against fascism…
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 2 days ago:
I believe there was also an issue in Roman Catholicism of the seal of confession
independent.co.uk/…/washington-state-child-abuse-…
The new law adds religious leaders and priests to a list of professions that can be criminally charged if they do not report suspected abuse or neglect, alongside teachers, doctors, nurses, childcare providers, and many others.
Previously, priests were only required to report if the suspected perpetrator was someone they had authority over, and were exempted from doing so if they learned about it through a “privileged communication” such as confession.
trump friendly federal judges are blocking that new law (in the state of Washington)
However a significant difference there is that was only for someone confessing with the expectation they weren’t confessing to a person, but to God. Hence wouldn’t confess to the crime if they knew they’d be turned in.
Mesrih applies when anyone (including the victim) is the one disclosing it, especially if it’s ongoing.
No idea about Jehovah’s Witnesses, but in general the more insular a religious sect is, the worse the problem is.
And no religion is more insulat then one that requires it’s followers to call their own version of police where a religious leader gets to decide if actual secular authorities are involved.
- Comment on What is the point of this exactly? 2 days ago:
Not really, it’s going to be under-reporting certain demographics.
In orthodox Jewish communities they have their own “cops” (Shomrim) and it’s against their religious law to turn a Jewish criminal (especially of their own sect) in to any authorities who aren’t explicitly Jewish.
In Brooklyn, Shomrim has been accused of withholding information about suspected local child molesters.[14] One Brooklyn South Shomrim member acknowledged to the press that they maintain a file of suspected local child molesters, and some believe that this file includes the suspects’ photos and the make, model and license-plate number of their cars. But Shomrim does not share this information with police due to the Torah prohibition against mesirah (informing on a fellow Jew to the non-Jewish authorities).[12] However, another high-ranking member claims that the other member was misquoted, and that the list that Brooklyn South Shomrim maintains is culled from the New York Sex Offender Registry.[46] Members of the Williamsburg Shomrim always consult a rabbi before involving police in a crime committed by one Jew against another.[13]
…wikipedia.org/…/Shomrim_(neighborhood_watch_grou…
Like, even if a normal cop happens to be Jewish, that’s not enough because the local police aren’t a Jewish organization.
Obviously other religions like Catholicism protects clergy, but it’s not a tenant of their religion that they can’t turn in any follower to secular authorities who are legally allowed to enforce laws.
In a lot of Orthodox communities, they don’t call 911, they call the Shomrim. If the victim is Jewish but not the perpetrator, then the Shomrim calls the police.
If the perpetrator is Jewish…
The crime isn’t punished or reported any higher. So all types of horrible shit is swept under the rug.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 2 days ago:
Was Idiocracy written by a time-traveller?
It was the logical and expected result from the current course of America…
But what people miss is that Idiocracy is always real for a surprising amount of people. Joe didn’t magically get smarter, his frame of reference stayed the same. But everyone around him became a lot stupider. We adjust IQ scores when they drift so the average is always 100 because of that.
And adjusting it at 100, also adjustes the cutoff at 70 for having an intellectual disability. Because the real issue isn’t a line of how smart someone is in a vacuum, it’s that an IQ difference of 30 points or more is enough for both people to realize something is off and communication to be hindered.
An IQ of 145 isn’t that rare, about 1 in 1,200. And that’s the cutoff for what an IQ test can reliably measure so it’s a good reference point. Most people who score over the test limits never get the bigger test, because that bitch can take multiple days and the numbers pretty much stop mattering.
For someone over that line though, over 80% of humans are more than 30 points below them, the majority much lower. To them every day of their lives has been Idiocracy, and they have existed at a relatively stable percentage of humanity for all of our past and will for all of our future.
What people are noticing when they think Idiocracy is coming true, is a widening gap in education. IQ just honestly isn’t that noticable except for a statistically insignificant amount of people at either end.
- Comment on How half the US lost part of their minds 5 days ago:
It also usually accurately summarizes the video rather than misinterpreting it…
The video say it’s older millennials, people around 40ish. But explicitly states multiple times that economics is the greatest predictor of exposure.
- Comment on How half the US lost part of their minds 6 days ago:
Gen X got the worst of it.
What?
Did you literally not watch it and trying to summarize?
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- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 6 days ago:
The current US government would send them to the worst place imaginable…
Like, say Canada would take them under asylum, but for 100k a person we could send them to a death camp in El Salvador…
Guess which trump would pick?
And like someone else said, it would grind the US to a halt.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 6 days ago:
It’s possible there’s multiple out there
I just at one point also wondered what the point of a petition was because I’m a jaded American
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 6 days ago:
Pretty sure:
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Yes, this is a legit thing the EU cares about. However that’s also why I’ve always wondered why they’re soliciting signatures outside the EU…
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Didn’t it come out that the people who pushed payroll processors to force studios to censor, have been found out to be a bunch of far right religious extremists who definitely aren’t going to stop here.
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- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 1 week ago:
If it’s lighter than air, it’s lifting you while it’s inside of you…
If it’s not there, it’s not lifting you, and you’re heavier.
Think of a balloon that is so old it doesn’t rise anymore. It just stays neutrally bouyant. In this case it’s even less than that. It is a completely and totally negligible amount of difference. But while holding a fart you’re technically a very shitty balloon.
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 1 week ago:
Methane is lighter than air, so farting makes you heavier.
But not in any measurable way.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They don’t even see/touch the card…
It’s not like the 80s where you hand them the card to swipe.
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 1 week ago:
Dams are set up in an area that a large amount of surrounding area naturally flows water into.
That’s why dams are constantly letting water out, even when it hasn’t rained.
So like, so X is the total amount of water before the dam overflows. You’d want to keep normal level at X - 25%. But if a storm is coming in they do pre-emptively open the floodgates and go down to X - 50% or whatever.
One of the big problems is these large storms last so long, days rather than hours. And even if they open the floodgates at the dam to help the lake, it makes it worse for people along the river it feeds into.
There’s no simple solution, we already started doing all that decades ago. It’s what was hiding the problem and why so many ignored it and it got so bad.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
Yup.
Clintons were very good friends with Biden but also trump.
Neoliberals poisoned the party so much that during Epstein’s hey day the letter by a name didn’t matter, trump himself was a big donor to the Dem party back then.
Neither Biden or trump could release just the names of people they don’t like, because they’d snitch on the people they liked and then you’re on the hook for protecting the ones you liked.
Someone like AOC is the only shot at a president that would actually release it. We need more politicians who have a loyalty to voters over a party.
Party leadership changes, and we got a rare window right now the party won’t block someone like AOC. We can’t count on that being true in 2032 if she doesn’t feel ready in 2028.
Ready or not, it’s time.
- Comment on Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship 1 week ago:
I’d ask why you were using a thorn. But I know the answer is going to be annoying…
- Comment on Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship 1 week ago:
“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” wrote Dębiak on X, noting he had little sleep while competing in several competitions across three days. “I’m completely exhausted. … I’m barely alive.”
The competition required contestants to solve a single complex optimization problem over 600 minutes. The contest echoes the American folk tale of John Henry, the steel-driving man who raced against a steam-powered drilling machine in the 1870s. Like Henry’s legendary battle against industrial automation, Dębiak’s victory represents a human expert pushing themselves to their physical limits to prove that human skill still matters in an age of advancing AI.
So …
When against an already overworked coder who hasn’t slept in days in a competition designed to be longer than a standard workday…
It’s like they tried as hard as possible to favor the AI and it still couldn’t do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You go see a psychiatrist, who is trained and qualified to tell you your self diagnosed condition doesn’t exist.
They can probably do it in one appointment, but they might have to keep telling you over and over again before you listen
- Comment on If You Want Me To Support You, Form A Union 2 weeks ago:
But if you are going to agree to bad employment contracts and let the business people screw you
Hold on, let me get my helmet …
- Comment on The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity 2 weeks ago:
In an actual free market all the corporations would act like this, because shit like this is what people want out of a business they patronize.
You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now behind it GameStop is looking to make some proverbial lemonade by auctioning off the Switch 2 killer for charity.
No lawsuits, no fight required by affected consumers
The company made it right and turned a bad situation into a PR move that helps a charity.
I really thought we’d see some kind of ethical capitalism out of the whole GameStop thing but it never really spread.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft flat out said it in an investor meeting years ago…
It’s not exactly a secret
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 weeks ago:
It would be hilarious what gets Americans BYDs is trump trying to hurt Musk.
If Biden had let them in. It would have destroyed Tesla.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 3 weeks ago:
“worth”
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 4 weeks ago:
The IDF will never be held responsible for their actions the Israeli government that ordered them should be
You see zero irony and n that comment?
Like, Israel spent decades going after anyone tangentially connected to the Holocaust…
It was just a couple years ago they prosecuted someone in their 90s who was forced to be a teenage secretary for a nazi.
And you’re legitimately implying:
The soldiers committing genocide were just following orders. We can’t judge them for what they’re actively doing , which is committing a genocide
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you want actual advice just put your stuff out there.
Dont apologize for it or make excuses that you’re new.
Just put it out there and see if people like it
That being said, try not to do it a lot or in super general communities because some people may consider it spammy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I mean, most posts like this aren’t real to begin with if we’re talking about suspicions.
But they do get engagement so it’s worth popping in with general advice some people do need to hear.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Lately there have been some running jokes about how we’re basically a throuple already, and those jokes have been getting a little more… not-jokey.
Those jokes are almost never jokes…
If the other people were the ones starting the jokes, that’s called “testing the waters” and you might be in more of a trouble than you realize already.
Like, I get that guys don’t learn that as early as women, but most people figure it out