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Comment · 24 days ago
His information hygiene certainly left something to be desired.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
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?
Comment · 11 months ago
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.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This guy was (is) a whole other level of genius.
Comment · 1 year ago
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?
Comment · 1 year ago
> 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

Comment · 1 year ago
They have each made the individual choice not to invest more effort in solving the case, the same as you have probably done.
Comment · 2 years ago
"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.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
i have a local llm installed already but thanks
Comment · 2 years ago
Then let us not descend to the level of our inferiors but maintain an intelligent standard of discussion. There is no reason to cry whataboutism which is what you are doing here in a roundabout way.

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