In his excellent book A Question of Intelligence: The IQ Debate in America, former Fortune magazine editor Daniel Seligman describes what it’s like to take the WAIS-R IQ test. One page 7, he describes taking the Arithmetic subtest, a measure of working memory and numerical skill:
The subtest called Aritmetic proved to be a breeze and morale restorer. The questions were what we used to call “problems” in the sixth grade, generally taking this form: If a car averages forty miles and hour, how far will it average in forty-five minutes?…
Unfortunately Seligman does not give enough specifics for me to unearth his score on this subtest, so it will be excluded when I calculate his IQ. He goes on to write:
By this time–we were now a little past the one-hour mark –a pattern had emerged. Although I was not being told my scores on the subtests, it was fairly obvious that I was doing well on the verbal-arithmetic front, not so well when confronted with spatial visual problems.
peepee is a MORON.
1. being a sociopath is “advantageous”.
2. smart people are able to gain advantage.
ERGO:
smart people are sociopaths.
or…smart people are like…
bonhoeffer and socrates.
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
when the roaches have taken over, does the smart one try to emulate the roaches?
or does he move to where there are no roaches?
and if there be no such place…by opposing…end it?
NO!
But a sociapath arguabley has actually a very easy environment to adapt to. As the Bible says, For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but forfeit his soul?
A sociopath doesn’t need to take into account his own feelings of guilt & remorse
exactly right.
peepee is a HARDCORE TRIPLE PENETRATION, VAG, BUTT, AND MOUTH…ATHEIST.
BUT ACCORDING TO KANT…
IT IS ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE A GOOD PERSON AND BELIEVE THAT “THIS IS ALL THERE IS”.
WHY?
BECAUSE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE SUCH…
DEATH IS ALWAYS…TOO MUCH TO ASK.
SO THEY WILL ALWAYS BE OUT DO-GOODER-ED BY THOSE WHO
ARE WILLING TO DIE OR HAVE SHITTY LIVES.
kant was a tard.
ethics does NOT supervene on non-ethical principles…including the supernatural.
read g e moore.
MOORE was a MORON
as are ALL
ANGLO-AMERICAN “PHILOSOPHERS” AFTER HUME AND BISHOP BERKELEY
ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY =
PROLE RETARDS PLAYING AT BEING THINKERS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY SAYING ALL BEFORE THEM ARE CRAP…
JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF…
STUPID PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THEY’RE STUPID (LANGAN)
AND MY LEMMA…
STUPID PEOPLE THINK THAT THOSE WHO ARE IN FACT SMARTER THAN THEY…ARE DUMBER.
THE MANIACS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM.
THE ROACHES HAVE DRIVEN OUT THE MEN.
IN THE ANGLO-PROLE-SPHERE…AT LEAST.
ethics does NOT supervene on non-ethical principles…including the supernatural.
that’s either a typo or typos or you’re very confused, or don’t know what “supervene” means.
and…
are you ready for some football?
THAT’S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT THAT KANT MERELY WAS THE JOHN THE BAPTIST FOR AND … DESPITE THE GERMAN IDEALISTS AND MARX AND HEIDEGGER THERE’S BEEN NO JESUS YET…
THAT IS…
IF ONE BELIEVES THAT RIGHT AND WRONG/GOOD AND EVIL/MORAL AND IMMORAL ARE NOT…
JUST WORDS…
THEN HE MUST BELIEVE THAT…
WELL…
AS BONHOEFFER SAID…
NO!
kant’s argument for eternal life was that in order to be a good person in this life one must assume that there is some reward or punishment temporal or eternal for his acts in this world…that is…the guy who thinks “supposes” that there is such is exactly the guy who’s going to jump on the grenade to save his fellows or whatever. like this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Karopczyc
like all of kant it’s both genius and idiocy. it’s the lips kissing the celestial sphere but at the same time has yet to break out of the sphere…shatter it.
hegel, fichte, and schelling tried. so did marx.
their project was left unfinished or un-convincing.
and has yet to be taken up again in earnest by anyone anglo-american or continental/german.
A shot from an enemy sniper struck him above the heart but he refused aid for this serious injury, plugging the bleeding wound with his finger until it could be properly dressed…
Although his position protected him, he leaped up to cover the deadly grenade with a steel helmet. It exploded to drive fragments into 1st Lt. Karopczyc, but his action prevented further injury to the 2 wounded men.
an mf among mfs…if he weren’t a roman catholic?
as i have told peepee…
i have an exceedingly simple worldview. i have no theories, conspiracy or otherwise.
i believe there are FACTS.
and i believe that GOOD and EVIL are not just words.
but though very simple this worldview shared by very few…
very few believe in facts and even fewer believe that “good” and “evil” are more than just…
words.
…this worldview is shared…
that’s my bottle of gin this evening.
one should not believe in anything he has not seen or heard/experienced…let alone a theory.
but the modern world…almost everyone is “plugged in”…even in the developing world. (read dan everett’s book http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/070416_r16101a_p646.jpg)
everyone is part of some theory whether they want to be or not…whether they think they are or not.
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”
UN-PLUG peepee.
you’re closer than i am.
go see the one charterhouse in north america. it’s should be…what?…200 miles from ottawa?
google says it’s 5h 23m via I-87.
it’s be worth it peepee.
come to think of it if one were to imagine some super intelligent and cynical cunt by his physical appearance…
i look very asristocratic peepee. VERY.
But a sociapath arguabley has actually a very easy environment to adapt to. As the Bible says, For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but forfeit his soul?
A sociopath doesn’t need to take into account his own feelings of guilt & remorse
Thank you jeanbedelbokassa. I’m glad someone has been reading what I actually say:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/10/25/an-excellent-horror-video/
I never said everyone who is adapted to our current environment is intelligent. What I said was “intelligence is the COGNITIVE ABILITY to ADAPT”. Adapt to what? Adapt your behavior to your advantage? What is to your advantage? It’s whatever advances your goals.
To greatly oversimplify, sociopath has only to adapt to one goal. How do I get ahead in society?..
The non-sociopath has to adapt to two goals: How do I get ahead in society without sacrificing my ethics?
It’s like solving a rubik’s cube. Solving the green side without messing up the red side takes more intelligence (cognitive adaptability) than solving the green side alone.
And so the success of non-sociopaths should not be judged by the same standard as the success of sociopaths. They are like boxers fighting with one arm tied behind their back. Life success is a very rough IQ test, and money is a very rough way of keeping score, but sociopaths and non-sociopaths would ideally be judged by different norms. If everyone were a sociopath, the correlation between IQ and money would probably be much higher.
It’s like solving a rubik’s cube. Solving the green side without messing up the red side takes more intelligence (cognitive adaptability) than solving the green side alone.
And so the success of non-sociopaths should not be judged by the same standard as the success of sociopaths. They are like boxers fighting with one arm tied behind their back. Life success is a very rough IQ test, and money is a very rough way of keeping score, but sociopaths and non-sociopaths would ideally be judged by different norms.
Brilliant analogies!
If everyone were a sociopath, the correlation between IQ and money would probably be much higher.
Maybe, but society might stop functioning if everyone was a sociopath. Corruption and cheating would through the roof, and if anything, making money might become more of a test of the degree one’s sociopathy than IQ.
Brilliant analogies!
Thank you!
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Maybe, but society might stop functioning if everyone was a sociopath. Corruption and cheating would through the roof, and if anything, making money might become more of a test of the degree one’s sociopathy than IQ.
Or conversely, if no one was a sociopath, the correlation between IQ and money might be higher. Or maybe, money/sociopathy ratio correlates more with IQ than money alone.
supervenience in the sense i am using it is METAPHYSICAL supervenience. that is, Q-properties supervene on P-properties iff there is no pair of possible worlds W1 and W2 at which the set of P-properties differs from W1 to W2 but the set of Q-properties does not. my claim is that moral properties are sui generis and do not supervene on any non-moral properties, including jebus christ or the form of the good or whatever gay ass theory you prefer.
i’m well aware of the faggotismo of possible worlds semantics.
and when i said “i believe in facts and i believe in good and evil”…
this was AGREEING with you.
as one medievalist said…something like:
the medi-evals weren’t any better than moderns in deed, but un-like moderns they felt guilty about how short they fell of perfection.
the very modern insistence that everything be reducible to facts makes morality, good and evil, etc. seem at best quaint or worse like astrology or paranoia.
Adaptation = higher fertility
Adaptation = higher fertility
Ultimately the entire organism evolves to adapt to its genetic “goals”, but intelligence is only one part of that broader adaptive system. Intelligence is just the part that COGNITIVELY adapts only the BEHAVIOR of the organism to his individual goals. However when one’s individual goals conflict with one’s genetic “goals”, even highly intelligent organisms will be evolutionarily maladaptive, despite being extremely cognitively adaptive.
Because it’s not the intelligence that’s maladaptive, it’s the goals the intelligence is being used to reach, and they’re dictated by physical and emotional systems, not cognitive ones.
(Ultimately the entire organism evolves to adapt to its genetic “goals”, but intelligence is only one part of that broader adaptive system. Intelligence is just the part that COGNITIVELY adapts only the BEHAVIOR of the organism to his individual goals. However when one’s individual goals conflict with one’s genetic “goals”, even highly intelligent organisms will be evolutionarily maladaptive, despite being extremely cognitively adaptive.
Because it’s not the intelligence that’s maladaptive, it’s the goals the intelligence is being used to reach, and they’re dictated by physical and emotional systems, not cognitive ones.)
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Adaptation = higher fertility
Adaptation = higher fertility
We’re using the word in two different contexts.
Historically intelligence did help us to adapt to our genetic “goals” like reproduction and tribal warfare (today not as much), but in a more general context, intelligence is the mental ability to adapt to whatever goal an organism might have.
the answer is of course that MEN and the SMART are like bonhoeffer and socrates and
NOT LIKE PEEPEE…
NOT LIKE COCKROACHES.
PEE HAS YET TO GRASP THAT BEING
STUPID
CAN BE AND IS…
ADAPTIVE.
RIP TORN, A FAMOUS DRUNK, WHO BEAT UP THE JEWBOY … SAYS IT ALL
PERFECTLY:
Bob Diamond: Too much trouble. They go elsewhere. We tried for a while, but they damage the tupas. Too rowdy. What about your chicken? How do you like it?
Daniel Miller: Oh, delicious!
Bob Diamond: Yeah.
[Bob is eating a meatloaf-like substance]
Bob Diamond: Mmm!
Daniel Miller: [curious] What are you eating?
Bob Diamond: You wouldn’t like this. Ha-ha-ha.
Daniel Miller: What is it? What’s it taste like?
Bob Diamond: You’re curious, aren’t ya? Good. I like that about you. You wanna try?
Daniel Miller: Yeah. It looks so weird.
[Daniel tries the substance, but has a terrible taste; Daniel gags and chokes; Bob laughs]
Daniel Miller: Oh, my God!
Bob Diamond: A little like horseshit, huh?
[Daniel nods as he spits it out]
Bob Diamond: As you get smarter, you begin to manipulate your senses. This tastes much different to me than it does to you.
Daniel Miller: Eww! This is what smart people eat?
WHO BEAT UP THE JEWBOY…
NORMAN MAILER
reminds me of this…wait for it:
PEE HAS YET TO GRASP THAT BEING
STUPID
CAN BE AND IS…
ADAPTIVE.
Stupid people can be well adaptED to certain situations, but that doesn’t mean they have the mental ability TO adapt to many situations.
A furry animal is adapted to the cold. A human making a fur coat is ADAPTING to the cold.
Adapted ≠ Adapting
”Stupid people can be well adaptED to certain situations, but that doesn’t mean they have the mental ability TO adapt to many situations.”
Why not ???
Why not ???
Because the stupid person (for whom stupidity is an advantage) has not adapted his behavior to his advantage, he just happens to be behaving in a way that becomes advantageous for some random reason. The word adapt means change to suit a purpose. The stupid person doesn’t change his behavior to exploit the situation, but the situation may change to fit his behavior.
andrew mccarthy? a much more gracile me.
more like john cleese, christoph metzelder, and william hurt…but…
all of my great great grans had blue eyes and unlike hurt i still have my hair.
there IS an aristo “look”. like prince william, but more. that’s me.
increasingly UN-common among whites.
dysgenics and idiocracy aren’t talk…they’re reality.
the contemporary world has no place for genuine geniuses like j-mac. not anymore.
oops wrong vid.
here’s johnny mac the GENIUS, no kidding, the guy was a fucking genius…at tennis…none compare or even come close:
SUCH AS YOU DREAM ABOUT MOTHERFUCKER.
and johnny mac was always RIGHT!
but he was very lucky in that his metier was OBJECTIVE…the judges made little difference.
but in SHIT-merica and canuckistan…
it’s even worse…
it’s not that the ball is on the line or even close to being on the line…
IN SHIT-MERICA A CLEAR WINNER CAN BE CALLED A FAULT BECAUSE IT LACKS ARTISTIC IMPRESSION OR STYLE POINTS…
If he says the questions were very easy, why not just assign him a near-perfect score on the section?
I had the same thought. I wouldn’t be surprised is PP does something along those lines to tie up loose ends for the final calculation.
It might be reasonable to assume he got all 14 questions right & within the time limits, but the last 5 items give bonus points for rapid replies (under 10-15 seconds) & you can’t tell from his description whether he got any or all of those bonus points, and they make a huge difference to the scaled score.