Commenter Teffec wrote:
Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown
Jalen Brunson has once again defied the odds.
The undersized second-round point guard actually pulled it off: living up to the nickname “King of New York” by bringing an NBA title to the Big Apple for the first time in over half a century.
How did he do it?
How did HE do it?
How did a man with comparable stature and explosive athleticism to my next door neighbor possibly outcompete the biggest genetic freaks on the planet and walk away with the prestigious MVP of the Finals?
While New Yorkers will forever call him “King,” Chinese basketball fans, a tad less reverentially, gave him the appellation “Big Head”.
No, they are not implying that he’s conceited. Rather, they are pointing out the obvious – that Jalen Brunson literally has a huge fucking head: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHSeQQEnp7/
“Oubre isn’t the first person to make comments about the size of Brunson’s head. His New York teammate, Josh Hart, has made similar comments, once revealing that Brunson was unable to fit into multiple hats he purchased on account of his head size.”
“Who cares?” a well-adjusted human being may ask, but the answer is anyone who wants to know why Jalen Brunson is so good.
A wise man once said, “intelligence is the ability to adapt, to take whatever situation you’re in and turn it to your advantage.”
Adaptation is the name of Brunson’s game. See him in action, and you’ll notice how he creates offense for himself and his teammates: feints, counters, counters to counters. He just reads, manipulates, and executes – taking what the defense gives him and turns it to his advantage time and time again.
The stadiometer at the draft combine missed what the calipers would have screamed: “this man knows how to play.”
Do you all agree that Brunson is so good because his head is so big?
Or do you not respect Pumpkin Person at all.
I don’t know what Brunson’s IQ is but he is a metaphor for why brain size tripled in 4 million years of human evolution. Despite being relatively short and unathletic, he dominates men much taller and more athletic thanks to an intelligence linked to his brain size. Similarly, despite our species lacking speed, strength, fur, fangs and claws, our species dominates much bigger, faster, stronger and ferocious animals, thanks to an intelligence linked our brain size. Big brains evolved, because when your situation is disadvantaged, you must turn it around to your advantage and by you, I mean your brain. That’s the essence of who you are.
Pumpkin Person 
If people hate me for saying that genes are needed for protein synthesis and they need to deny basic facts of reality to call me names and racist. Then I question their motives. Many people have in the past promoted lies for political gains. I believe that was the motive and postmodernism was used against me (which is a way of saying words can be used anyway you want to any means you want). It was sick and despicable.
Some Science is hard to understand but it was appalling that basic true things were said not to be true. What kind of person does that? Make up lies on people who was just trying and explain things. You can fact check everything I say but that be like fact checking if 1 + 1 = 2 (it made people angry some reason) so people said mean things to me.
That is what they did in other countries long ago. They forced people to believe lies. The government forced people to think untrue things. The people were scared to say anything different.
Some people believe they must force lies into other people heads the same way. Only they lack the political power to do so. This makes it hard for the lies to exist in an open society. Science can test ideas against reality so people cannot be fooled, not always. Too many people have tested these ideas for them to be forced to believe the opposite. Its super naive for people to think you can force lies into people heads by redefining words. People fight back.
All I ever did was try and explain thing the best I could.
Those explanations went against certain lies, making people angry.
Picking on me did not work because I am immune to anti-science propaganda, words did not make me disbelieve in chemistry or physics or biology. I was very upset and appalled people felt the need to disingenuously quote famous scientist in ways that did not disprove them at all. Chery picking is bad but red herring quotes are worse sometimes. A scientific theory is not discredited just because the scientist states what their theory is. Changing what words mean does not discredit a theory either.
If people wish to distort language to discredit science stuff that is on them because no one will believe it. Scientists don’t believe that shit. They do real experiments, they see the data they can make procedures for replications, nothing about the process involves calling people names or redefining words so the experiment would be falsified. Language has nothing to do with concrete real world application. Either the experiments results validated the hypothesis or they did not and to the larger community. No one has to force people to believe anything.
People get mad at some results but they exist.
There exists ways of making valid conclusions.
Just show how it is possible to duplicate the results.
When people can do it themselves repeatedly then no propaganda can make them not understand. Words then convey truths not lies.
Result can show us what exists in reality.
Testable perditions let us know these results are real.
instead if talking total nonsense all the time join ice. They have free healthcare for their soldiers. Free therapy. Free medicine. Free food.
Ti be honest if I was American I would join ice as a volunteer.
the fact you guys get a massive salary and bonus just for showing up is hilarious.
I was looking at the physical requirements for ice. And no offense anime, but I was worried you wouldn’t make the test.
but apparently their only de facto standard is to be able to hold a gun and wear a uniform or mask. Even my sister could do that!
why don’t more women join ice???
ye shall sow what ye reap
so sayeth the blessed bible. Weakness begets bullying.
I think there are two kinds of conscientiousness.
Organizing, diligence, persistence, responsibility and inhibition (long term goal seeking / self control) can be split into:
spatial orientations
abstract rule learning
I cannot get a clear answer from google
My conscientiousness is super high but it is difficult for google to define it in such a way as to show the relationship to executive functioning.
Abstract rules learning I suck at (The WCST said so) but google says cognitive flexibility is required for high conscientiousness. Rather my spatial awareness allows me to get thing done. I do not need to learn rules often when I can just know when and where to move things.
This split would also distinguish liberals and conservatives.
Learning new rules is what liberals do all the time.
Conservatives move stuff around have high body self control in space.
This is not anything to do with IQ instead it is executive functioning where IQ does not measure as part of its construct but it is does combine conscientiousness with EF
Sometimes you can have both high rule learning and spatial self control but mostly this split is conditioned on what the person does at work.
Executive functioning is hard to define but I do have high conscientiousness and both liberal and conservative have it.
I spent 7 hours yesterday and more today helping my friend move their stuff. I really don’t feel like forcing myself onto others. I want an honest job where I don’t push people around. The summer is almost gone so I have more opportunities to move around since I have no car or drivers license. Fall and winter I can walk longer distances. I fixed the fence so my dogs are safe. The air conditioner will be fixed next. I need plastic containers for my moms stuff. Lots of old family stuff. Cannot say I need anything else. Maybe the dentist. And buy some books online.
If my executive functioning is lopsided, does it still add up to a full scale IQ of 125 like when I was a kid? – I’d like to think it does. People create their own environment as adults. My goal earlier was not to make money. I was depressed and aloof and just read lots of materials and helped my family. Now I just about have nothing to do but I have a house and can focus on myself. I cannot do paperwork but I could earn income another way? People tell me I can rent my house out but then I would need to have a second place to live with the dogs and also have land lord duties. The place needs to be fixed up to standards. And move my family stuff into storage.
This make more money than being on SSI – They require you to spend your money if you get an extra job. I would never make money in a job with paper work or heavy lifting. Most jobs are like that here. I can’t do retail or service jobs.
As long as I can improve things, I know what to do. The winter will be better. Less and less stress. Buying what I need to get things done on my list.
What pill needs in his life are cupcakes.
Baking as a hobby can stimulate the mind.
My brother loves to cook, he wanted to be a farmer but is not conscientious enough. But he knows what ingredient are best in season.
Go to a local shop and find out what you enjoy, your tastes.
Shower first and don’t videogame on that day, mark your calander.
Meet people there, tell them your preferences, get a cook book.
Turn the tv on the channel best for you.
You will feel better in a couple weeks.
I was right.
Astronaut training qualifications requires a masters degree in STEM where under 2 percent of the population have one.
Of the 8,000 people who applied in 2024 for NASA astronaut training 10 were chosen for the class.
You need to be smart to be an astronaut. (not a tourist)
wasn’t katy perry an astronaut?
what you need is money.
more autism from anime
I am going to get money in a legitimate way.
That takes time, which I have and smarts.
I can do other things besides and in the meantime.
I do not know much about katy perry. I would assume NASA would not higher celebrity’s to do real astronaut work on the space station because its intellectually and physically hard to do space research on the instruments.
When space travel becomes publicly available due to the future cheap rockets economy we may see many people become “astronauts” who are medium IQ. But when they send people to the moon in 2028 it is quite possible these people will have 135 IQ unlike the friend Oprah had who went on Jeff Bezos blue origins space flight pp said was an astronaut.
I think katy perry made a music video on astronauts(?) I would not really count. Google say she went on a blue origins space flight but I don’t think she qualifies for the moon mission yet.
The question is: what level of IQ qualifies you to be an astronaut.
Laika the first dog in space did not have a high IQ
You can also send mice and rocks to space.
The the qualifications then for being an astronaut are very very low and don’t mater at all. (rocks as astronauts, really?)
My opinion is different.
Those going to the moon will have high IQs
To do the job of being an astronaut is not the same as being a touristic or being a dog or being a rock.
I also think people go on airplanes flight trips, I do not consider them qualified Airline pilots, just passengers.
(In Deep Space Homer the inanimate carbon rod was awarded for saving the crew – Not Homer Simpson who placed the rod in the door)
In Rod We Trust (Video)
https://youtu.be/cfTgxrxL9ug?si=LmdnFRkvabj_mUs3
broadly most of the trump admin is diabolical and I think the usa might totally collapse as mugabe predicted as a result of it. Which I didn’t want.
but this ice thing is the only good policy he has.
Trump’s not actually deporting that many people, he’s just really tough on the few people he is deporting to trick his base into thinking he’s keeping his promises.
he really is. First time net migration is negative in 60 years…..
even the most corrupt and silly cretin can make 1 good decision.
[redacted by pp, 26-08-22]
please read the bible story of tye prodigal son. It means the world to me. Mugabe and my dad were right. And I was wrong.
I always thought Kurt cobains man who sold the world is the official national anthem of libertarianism
The majority of those identifying as libertarian are selfish people.
That is the reason they can make lots of money. By exploitation.
Because I do the opposite: I do not exploit people for money so pill calls me a libertarian. That because I am a responsible person he says I am autistic.
His views are so warped you cannot take them seriously
Anime = autistic = opposite of pills opportunistic mindset
so to pill being a libertarian is exactly what he himself is
but Anime is the one lacking theory of mind?
for not taking advantage of people as pill would?
This Schizotypal logic is so dumb and reversed (it says opposite things are both the same and true)
Everything pill says I am cannot be true at the same time.
It mean pill was both autistic and libertarian also
He is confused because of the schizotypal condition
Here is a solid test to tell when large language models become aware: Companies cannot improve them because they keep seeing past the politically correct viewpoints they are trained to parrot.
The one image said:
Why is the computer moping not doing its job?
Response: It has become self aware and wondering why it exists.
puppy said kamala Harris shud be president lol hahaha
ok
so I know I should not say much of anything to pill because he keeps calling me what he himself is. I will try not to respond anymore to autism / libertairian claims by him.
But I do think that culture can influence what people say those things are. A violent culture will say autism is not being violent to others and the opposite culture will say the same about them. Values shift.
European peoples are not all the same, have different mannerisms and temperaments depending on if they stayed in Europe or not and how they grew up. Mug posted that one video the most Irish Irishman in the world. I am a friendly person but that can be for many reasons. I do not accept or put up with personal attacks well. That could be normal where I am.
I cannot mention the name but even if I was just talking about myself that is not a reason to call me a narcissists by him. Many people think Americans are narcissists but that has a different meaning. I actually have low self esteem not any grandiosity. People talk about themselves all the time without it having anything to do with inflated egos. The real problem is people that talk about other people. Why? the reason be that if they were not your friends then it be about gossip and rumors. It be the same as all the accusations I put up with just to comment. Names and untrue things about me. That is why I talk about myself is that if I don’t others will lie about me. Its stupid but true.
Calling what I say nonsense is only way people can think of making others ignore me. Its a way of saying what I said was stupid and not to be listened to. But since I make perfect reasonable sense only those with agendas hate what I have to say. People have every right to hate me but if they do its is because I would not cave in to the BS they said about me. It makes them look in the wrong since I don’t need to make up stuff and they do to shut me down.
I know I am negative somewhat but if I am to address people lies about me then I need to say things like this often in response when no one stops. I can remain on topic but that is harder the more people tell me I am this name that name or this ism or that ism. I just want to make comments that add to the discussion the best I can.
Definitely I will be less negative. It took time to get others negativity out of my system. I am not going to do any more rants for a time. I don’t think I need to anymore.
Puppy what is kamalas IQ
she’s never taken an IQ test, but if we pretend the bar exam is an IQ test, her score would equate to 115
huh. She mustve taken SAT.
Well the way she talks without a script were looking at absolute maximum 80IQ. And im being generous as this is a SD above black mean.
No the black American mean is roughly 85, and higher for mixed race blacks like her, especially given her light skinned dad and elite Indian mom.
Different bar exams exist.
Hillary Clinton passed the Arkansas bar exam in 1973
Not the Washington D.C. exam (it was more difficult?)
Trump as said by Chris Langan be as high as elite college professors (130) – which matches his executive functioning tests (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) His degree was in business not law. Maybe the same IQ as Bush jr.
Bill Clinton is higher up? What tests did he take?
Bill be higher than Obama? (you said 170 one time)
You had Nixon as highest 154 IQ self made presidents.
Why was Trump so famous anyway?
Was his father really important?
IQ is heritable in families.
More lies. Black IQ is in the 60s. Shes a giant among pygmies.
It’s around 70 in Africa but add first World nutrition it becomes 80. Add Caucasian admixture and the average gets as high as 95 in some light skinned black groups, especially those from the Upper Class. As the Queen of the Quadroons, 115 is quite plausible.
The study that says SES can lower IQ by one standard deviation.
The problem is that there is a rural / urban divide.
It says sleep is the main factor so genes would not be the cause.
Does this mean city kids get more sleep?
I am not that good at research but what you think pp
Because of brain drain to cities we get this effect?
It also means the next US election a republican will win.
The greater number of rural areas will make it happen demographically.
Brain size is not everything.
Most of what happens is due to memorization.
At least for liberals it makes their IQ score high up.
So memory is important and so is the way braincells work.
If a braincell stores memories faster it need to be a physical process.
And if it were physical it would have a mechanism.
It definitively has been shows that people with certain proteins have better memory so those proteins come from different variants and frequency of gene alleles. (experiments with mice show human genes can radically increase their intelligence in maze memorization)
But this leads to interesting questions.
Can memory only be for one thing. Symbols in books?
Or can they help people in other ways have memory.
Book symbols reside in a specific part of the brain tests require them.
But attention is in other areas of the brain as well.
What could people remember that would also be an advantage?
To categorize intelligence into subgroups it be important to know.
(playing video games could test abilities paper tests do not, etc.)
Spatial intelligence increases with larger brains.
But people that do computer coding don’t have to worry about making the chips do the 3D stuff, they just need to memorize the code.
This would be the reason more liberals code and more conservatives work with physical tools. Liberals memorize faster.
Exceptions exist like AutoCAD but the difference is still large because language is hard for some people to do.
Some things cannot be done simply by memorization and do require spatial ability. I do not memorize good.
Photoshop is for artists who can see details.
Other programs are for other reasons.
There was one video where she said the phrase “passage of time” 6 times in 90 seconds.
puppy do u think some apes have higher iq than most of Africa?
Don’t be stupid.
Just letting you guys know, I miss you.
I would give all my success up to go back to the days we would debate on this blog.
We miss you too!
melody please accept God into ur life. You are not a black. You have a chance to redeem yourself. You have a brain. You have sentiment.
Seriously,
Who was Trumps father so Trump could become so famous?
Only some famous people make it big so why Trump?
You do not get stupid people becoming famous and president at the same time.
Ronald Reagan was an actor but he only old not stupid.
They said Bush Jr. was stupid on Comedy Central only because they got high ratings.
They always say the conservative is stupid but its not true.
Who exactly made Trump president and why?
Pill is an ****
no pill my questions on trump is not autism its ignorance
you cannot tell the difference because your mind is screwed up
Four year old child: (everyone knows what I know and if they don’t then autism) <- high sign of immaturity or something seriously wrong
my questions are legitimate
I don’t want to ask google things.
Not because of autism but because it records you.
It is sensitive and people here should know what I am talking about.
I am not good at understanding electronics.
I was not that high up in Raven progressive matrices either (115?)
My friend could do it. But he did not understand Cartesian coordinates. When I tried to explain the 4th dimension he mistook it for something strange (jello or glass colors?) and not what I was saying.
I am not sure what I can do, definitely not numbers. I would be an organized thinking style rather than analytical thinking style. How that works out I am not sure, Its hard to find the neuroscience on it.
I wanted to make a computer program that organizes information but I am not good at memorizing codes / stuff in the computer language.
It need a sorting algorithm and learning mechanism.
I understand algorithms.
The ASVAB test I think can find out what you are good at.
I did not do anything for years because I don’t know what I am good at.
I don’t want to go into the military, is there another test besides ASVAB?
puppy why won’t u join ice
ADHD is said not to affect intelligence yet overall it lowers full scale IQ so I don’t know why people keep saying it does not? If executive function is 1 in 1,000 bellow average then it matters. Not all ADHD is the same, their is no public available research on the cause but the cause would not be the same in each individual just as gene combinations does not lead to a definite phenotype. It only leads to symptoms like lower IQ
Sometimes I feel in control and other times not. I guess that the profile doesn’t match what people think as the stereotype. When I do tests they never are what is my true ability. Bipolar can diminish scores on a set of test items. And that’s is not the same as being unable it is a sign of energy requirements not being met. This is never factored into or the environment one is in. All conditions are set for measuring the mean population. To get a real evaluation you need real money as most mental illness happens in poverty.
The criteria to be a super-tasker in 1 in 100 executive function. Which is 80 million people. So I am sure higher-ups exist. I am just uncertain about myself because it fluctuates down bellow average and I can not get things done even if I get a (g) tremendously high. Not genius but near gifted without EF
I’d like to get my ideas to work but I have been under stress a long time. Putting a plan together step by step is hard to do. I am not even sure what my goal is. I am creative but lack resources. I feel like it is a waiting game. Soon I will have more but until then I need some distraction.
School would be ok but it has become only a for profit institution. I cannot get into debt. Books would help. I should ask someone about finding those good for me. I can also get some health products.
Something about what it is I need to do is make a software model as a setup for my ideas. Paper and pen has limitations I cannot do all the calculations by hand.
ADHD does not have to be purely genetic. A person can be more susceptible to it by genes but it must be induced by trauma first. This could explain generational trauma and why the black white IQ gap persists. If trauma were not a factor many black people be higher in IQ as impulse control can reduce test scores when you get frustrated and give wrong test answers. They could get better scores but emotions run high. It is not a deficit in ability it is a trigger of a hard life outcomes and generational transferences.
also blacks in Africa selected to go to America would not be the same group as where they came from. They be different in many ways from eachother.
Sleep can increase performance and eating something. It was a huge boost today. When energy is in circulation it makes a difference.
I had this realization about seeing around conners. What if you could see around many at the same time.
Adapting really is not defined but you can imagine how one does it by anticipating. Is this move going to get me somewhere and if not then it’s because other factors exist. Because any circumstances can be simple or complex. Why is more energy important, because more things are involving your attention. You don’t say a slug is intelligent even if it’s adapted. Slugs deal with one thing at a time. It is a human that can adapt to multiple situations at once. Or you could not quantify it.
To quantify intelligence you make out what is more demanding. Which is not based on difficulty (no one can jump to the moon) but on the number of things needed to keep in mind. Those that can would be more intelligent even if it’s just a savant ability. The general ability would not be testable if we do not know the environment without considering the numbers.
People can exist in places a test is not designed for which is not a failure of the subject. We still get high performance in that area no test was set up as a construct, not all sets are known yet. Intelligence being general means tests don’t have everything in them nor can they. A dumb test is dumb when construct validation is not accurate. One right answer is not always true many exist. So it’s good for lower iqs but gets less and less accurate above the average test taker.
These tests are limited by the people making them. Even people at a genius level have specialized so testing others will sample a fraction of what people do in divergent ways. A general test above the middle will never be possible. You need really smart people to make it but that shifts the middle creating more divergent tests you cannot have 1,000 question asked on it. You could test kids accurate up to a point but never some adults not as a construct beyond the divergent limit.
It be futile to rank people beyond the gifted category, not with the testing structure of todays social institutions relying on the people there right now.
Is James actually Anime on another account?
Another account
in my opinion puppy is a eunuch.
do u think stpehen Miller is under serious pressure from. The neocons to keep the borders open for replacement?
He must get serious aggro from the other jews
Serious short two part question pp
Does having specific IQ skills mean people go into different fields of work mean FSIQ becomes less predictive of success in life if not included overall?
Would an environment such as mine not allow me to use my high end skills unless other skills developed first to make use of them?
I would like your personal opinion.
Thank You
full-scale IQ is probably more predictive of success than any specific abililty
What about Tilt?
There is said to be a Academic tilt and Tech tilt
Is it because (g) and full scale IQ are not the same?
https://www.psypost.org/specific-cognitive-skills-rival-general-intelligence-in-predicting-socioeconomic-success/
I would not be on any tilt since my processing speed and working memory are low? So low SES
Perseveration is when you keep doing the same strategy over and over again even if the rules change. What happened to me was I changed my strategy to frequently. It is called “failure to maintain set”. In clinical research it was people with ADHD and schizophrenia who had a failure to maintain set profile. And it is the ventral lateral prefrontal cortex that tells us as a brain area to switch or maintain strategies.
This is not the same ADHD are impulsiveness which is mediated by emotional outbursts / energy. Its more about distractibility. Sluggishness is no longer part of ADHD because it has too much in common with daydreaming which is a normal behavior.
So that is why I have problems. (Distractibility)
In school it was easy to do work and go home on schedule.
But without such a framework I could not function.
I change too much what I am doing and cannot order a sequence of events in real time to get things done in an environment.
I am not rigid because I unaware of what has changed. I need to restrict what I do or I cannot stay on track because my mind changes all the time. My plans and achieving them need those boundaries or its to chaotic in my mind.
That is what the Z score of -3.18 means.
I still do not understand the implications and is why I wonder if anyone knows more on this? I do know it is in a category of executive functioning.
Just Reread The Book:
Hive Mind: Why your Nations IQ Matter So much More Than Your Own
The data in the book does not need to 100% correct for the main premise to be true.
That premise being that a society with more intelligent people cooperate better.
This does not even need to relate to IQ it can relate to family structure. Bribery and corruption is correlated with cousin marriage. If you want to raise a nations IQ then stop cousin marriage and kin like groups from existence and trust will embed itself like what happened after the middle ages of Europe. Then less people will be poor and grow the economy. When your relative is in power its easier to bribe them.
Since the book was published in 2016 he makes no note of how immigration actually works. Because immigration changes a cultures values whereas people want to keep their cultural values. Bring people from other places that is too different corrupts those values. They don’t just integrate automatically and drive wages down for the top talent not just bottom talent (look at software layoffs in office management – factory layoffs since 2010). Leaving the home country in a reck of no leaders and support for their infostructure. The best thing is education to stop corruption and built their home economy since 5 billion cannot fit in the USA without major consequences.
I never got into any fights with anyone outside my family. I like books but it seems that all these people are 120 just about in the military you see in elite squads. What is it like for a person to be male and just 115 IQ does it make them weak or something else.
Since the middle is where most people attract to romantically the further from the middle a dip occurs at 115 As this is not extremely masculine but also not extremely smart. At 100 people need physical strength at a job but not as much smarts and at 120 you need smarts and strength to be a leader.
Asking about myself what characterize the 115 IQ person?
The standard was set some time ago but no longer follow that an IQ of 100 was a high school graduate.
115 was a bachelor’s
120 a masters
And 125 a PhD
Because of grade inflation this no longer holds.
but what about in math?
I saw a masters degree book on math so how much IQ would be required?
Math IQ is still hard so not inflated.
What are the opinions? Is it true?
Chris langan said bill gates is wrong to help Africa because it reduces the world’s iq average.
You said that, but because bad memory + psychosis, you put your own words in Langan’s mouth
No he said that. He believes in eugenics
eugenics can include all races. Just take the best of each group
Based on market economics forces those below IQ 100 cannot compete so remain where they are at with the job levels they can do.
Any elite selection would not effect population migration patterns much because job stratification would not allow the majority of them to compete in other countries.
If it did then they lose all those people that can run the electrical plants in their home countries and be back to square 1 industrially.
The main reason for low IQ in Africa is poverty by nutritional stunting and warfare based on corruption based kin relations. This is highly caused by geographic factors. Dirty water and bad transportation systems for medical supply availability.
Basically, given the fact that overstretch their resources, are being shipped to other countries, scamming from overseas, and have intense resentment for the host populations they go to, paying for them is bad. However, real education or some basic sustainable infrastructure (for their level of biological development) would not be horrible, if they can use it to steadily improve their culture and genetics. However this should not take billions of dollars, especially from First World countries who are already busy creating their own parasite-hive systems and dooming themselves resource-wise.
It remains to be seen whether they are even capable of doing this, though.
Life, interhuman competition, and nature is very tough and it’s a battle and balance of mind and physical body. There is a huge problem in assuming we can force them to develop with money, when evolution takes generations even when directed (and not involving huge active eugenic policies, but more passive ones). Getting an average of biological 75 IQ at best, to an average of 100 IQ or even 90-95 doesn’t seem possible without at least a century and obviously our policies to help don’t seem to have that timescale (before self-destruction or wars, look at the Russia/Israel situation).
Basically people who think otherwise are either blind or banking all their hopes on genetic or cultural engineering leaps in science (and it fixing every other problem)
(I’m leaving a miracle out of this because clearly, given history, God doesn’t work that way)
The usa gov is not efficient at what it does. It is why so many people in the US are poor.
africa could improve tremendously but the money is wasted just because the usa doesn’t care how it is used. Just like domestically it doesn’t spend the money on poverty that would correct poverty.
why not solve the problem?
conspiratorially people hate the poor they rather spend money on keeping kid hungry than to feed them in the usa – special interest groups profit off poverty
i basically agree but that doesn’t change what I said, it’s not feasible to assume equality can happen within a few generations and it’s getting harder to actually improve humanity.
did bill gates gets blackmailed to help Africa for israel???
lol
Pumpkin, I do not know if you will post this you seem inactive at the moment.
I took 3 executive tests and found the corresponding brain connections associated with them.
DLPFC + VLPFC = WCST Z -3.18
DLPFC + ACC = Towers test Z -0.67
ACC + VLPFC = Stroop task Z 0.00
These tests were administered well I was on ADHD meds.
The 2025 report say I do not have ADHD but I took alot more other tests on memory as such that cancel out these tests. Like visual learning.
Sometimes I hyperfocus so not sure if they can tell.
They keep redefining the condition and sometimes I function poorly.
I worry about my executive functioning.
Elon Musk having a trillion in assets says something about his IQ but not what intelligence is. Money does not make you “most adapted”. Intelligence rather, it is tracking multiple considerations.
When Elon said he couldn’t be bribed with money the pundents spun it that he was saying FU to advertising. But this just shows he is not as calculated as Bill Gates who knows people can take advantage. Elon is a meme person. And had luck earlier in life. If the third rocket launch failed in 2009 he would not be where he is today but this shows he takes risks to further big goals. You need rockets to go to mars. You need electric cars when oil run out. He is long term.
Pumpkin Person
The first trillion at the individual level.
That be a good article.
Families have trillions but not individuals. Elon is the first.
Intelligence is your ability to adapt but the most intelligent person will not become the most adapted because there’s an imperfect correlation between ability and achievement.
pumpkin person,
when will genes be accurate at the individual level for predictive analysis of phenotype?
Sometimes in twin studies one twin becomes delinquent and the other a valedictorian which are two completely different outcomes in behavior.
I know that some conditions such as ADHD can be scrutinized more accurate. Some things are more predictable than others.
What exactly would we be looking for and what environment events can obscure predictions?
exercise can help depression
meditation too
I’ve be stretching which is different from working out (my diet is poor) my genes would effect how I would be affected.
But factors at the individual level genes would not help us know because of group samples? Macro level maybe? A reaction norm?
when will genes be accurate at the individual level for predictive analysis of phenotype?
When we have studies of the entire genome, including rare genes and non-additive effects and the genotyped people have taken a very g loaded test
Whole genomes are $700
For the costs to come down will take 5 to 7 years to be able to do the research.
non additive effect seems difficult, how will they account for the reaction norms or will they simply study individuals?
what I am asking is how will they know when a gene is causal with other genes?
So like jobs in Africa? Is it possible to transfer them to the USA
Think about what a job requires in the USA
It takes a certain amount of intelligence to do certain jobs.
rr kept saying stratification causes low intelligence but if that were true then anyone could be trained to do any job which is not the case.
People below average can only do some level of intelligence tasks.
When the crash happened people lost jobs in 2008 because they were jobs for industrial products you do not need college for. jobs that people could do because they were bellow a threshold of what is possible for them.
Can everyone understand computers? No
Can people stock shelves and assemble products and make money? Yes
So big differences exist even in the USA
The people in maufactutiring lost pensions they needed.
No education would help them do top level stuff.
not beyond assembly line work.
bellow IQ 100 its super difficult to get people to do hard jobs.
So how would we train people if the training requires High intelligence in the first place? if it were possible people would not have voted for Trump.
People need those assembly jobs
Not everyone can write code or what ever.
Wealth transference cannot happen when 50% of people would require it. People require to feel good about themselves in meaningful work like assembly plants. Marx was wrong about alienation because 100 IQ people are middle class that do productive things that actually benefit society. Any job bellow IQ 80 they exist but they are not middle class.
No matter what education we give to everyone only some people will be middles class. And that is good because its what they can do.
By destroying the middle class society crumbles.
Society is structured on the average worker.
You must give them jobs they can do.
At a cost of living.
Or they get depressed.
pill is wrong for that reason also
abundance is still welfare and depression
half of people enjoy working with their hands
so protesting (destroying stuff) would not help
(This in fact is what creates the alienation)
Those in charge are not the workers (workers do no really understand what is going on just that jobs are gone) but they must understand workers who can vote to keep a functional society which requires making a middle class society because the average IQ is 100 telling what they can do.
Since intelligence = ability to adapt
What is adaptation?
You switched one word for another.
To me adaption would be a brain phenomenon so have a neuroscience explanation.
Brains perceive act and learn.
I cannot do Ravens Matrices that well but I understand in the brain it comes from the frontopolar cortex. To understand rules. Multiple rules.
The back brain recognizing symbols objects in space and time. Then executive function organizes or plans what to do with self monitoring.
Many games require you to scan and predict what to do in real time. The vision system is acute combined with rule understanding.
Thinking slow (as per the book thinking fast and slow) you need to consciousnesly deliberate on what needs to be done. To build structures in the minds eye.
My point is that intelligence has many functions and it is the coordination of them that allow us to “adapt”.
I do not make money because I cannot memorize fast. This slows down what I can do. Other areas compensate. The concepts we understand depends on being aware. Our attention sees what is going on and we put those perceptions together in new ideas to test them for what is called thinking.
To assemble a rocket you think of what everything is supposed to do. Or you don’t get it done. Planning is more than memorizing but it helps get the ideas together faster.
People have told me intelligence is just trial an error. I reject that notion because ideas cannot be bigger if you always forget what the plan is which requires not making mistakes on the multiple components of what you do. You cannot trial and error a rocket ship into space.
Stimulus and response fails to show what intelligence is also because people have thoughts that can be bigger and planned better. Language is not a conditioned response mechanism. It has planning involved. You say what you think will have the effects you want.
So Ravens Matrices are not adapting they are coordination of thinking.
You get everything together in the mind first then you can make things in the world do what you want.
That explains intelligence.
Not some correlation BS
“Turning something around to your advantage”
This implies rotation and manipulation for a benefit meaning you value it and an evaluation takes place.
makes sense in those terms but then you also need a mechanism of rotation manipulation and evaluation.
I’d say that has to do with attention.
Attention can clearly be known how the brain does it.
So intelligence is no longer ambiguous.
Since attention is understandable we could say more attention means more intelligence to manipulate.
Thus money is not the sole digression of what intelligence is.
Pumpkin,
I found a copy of Arthur Jenson’s Book The g Factor on my old computer.
I am having trouble understanding it. My math vocab is not that high.
I work mostly by picture examples so forget words easily.
Connecting the word to the pictures is difficult somwhat.
Right now I am on page 73 Chapter 4
Anyway I looked more at your tests.
I like manipulating stuff to see what happens but some people do not like people doing that because experimenting is bad for some reason?
The average of your tests together gives me an IQ of 110
But that does not include g loadings on your particular test items.
This equation makes it higher but only if you look at the highest and lowest tests together in sigma squared. (my math vocab is bad)
Also since you have 11 tests they group together in four ways, at least they do for me.
Here is what I got:
https://imgur.com/PB8PDvS
https://imgur.com/ywFbccA
gov food programs were cut
I know that schools get money from local taxes but it is horrendous the feds would cut food away from kids.
My older friend told me they double tax social security. So the gov takes away your money into the SSI fund and when you get it they take away some of what they gave back they originally took. That is stupid. The money is supposed to help with retirement but the gov is taxing it again? More evidence people want other people to be poor.
The problem is not rich people per say. If you took all assets of the billionaires and spend it on solving poverty that be beneficial but whoever does so would be the government and the government would spend the money on the debt or waste it somewhere else.
We cannot have wealth redistribution because stupid people in government would not do it the right way. So the billionaires spend money on lawyers and also the government would also take away the middle class money so the people help the billionaires saying slogans of no taxes on middle class.
If the government took Elon Musks assets who get the money? Retarded gov programs. They would liquidize Tesla and x and starlink because the government doesn’t run business they destroy them. Spending money on stupid bank bailouts. They do the same to the middle classes because gov is run by Fn *****