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College and high school students have turned to AI software such as ChatGPT to automate and expedite the often tedious process of writing essays. This naturally poses a major problem for teachers, and has led to a cat-and-mouse game between increasingly advanced content-generation software and efforts to detect automated content. Here are some solutions I… Continue reading AI and preventing cheating in the classroom setting

For all its vaunted capabilities when it comes to contemplating hypotheticals or abstractions high-IQ doesn't seem to enable individuals to understand the lives of those who are lower on the distribution High-IQ individuals have a very hard time developing a theory of mind for… — Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) September 12, 2024 I am sure this… Continue reading The myth of Democratic disunity

A lot of social policy is conceived on the erroneous assumption that the unintelligent or average-IQ masses can easily modify their behavior or make rational choices: Agree. I've been preaching for years about 'cognitive oppression' — the tendency of high-IQ elites to order civilization in ways that are extremely confusing & overwhelming for lower-IQ people… Continue reading The quadrant of responsibility: individual vs. collective

Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy Purchased 18.3K More Bitcoins for $1.1B: The new purchases was made at an average price of $60,408 per token, Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said in an X post on Friday morning, boosting the company’s holdings to 244,800 BTC. MicroStrategy’s cost basis for those holdings is $9.45 billion, or an average price of… Continue reading Michael Saylor’s Big Bitcoin Purchase

I saw this going viral: I’ve applied to nearly 2,200 jobs and am ready to give up, by Kevin Cash, a 43-year-old Portland, Oregon resident: I’ve been spending less time in front of my computer these days because I’m almost up to 2,200 job applications. With the results I’ve gotten, my plan at this point… Continue reading One man’s job-seeking plight shows the contradiction of IQ discourse

The debate pretty much went exactly as I expected. Trump covered all the bases, such as attacking the administration (I have to periodically remind myself Biden is still technically in charge) on Afghanistan, which he called “…one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen.” Same for immigration. Things began to go downhill… Continue reading Trump loses debate, but I am not concerned

The ‘debate of the century’ is tonight between Kamala and Trump. The rules: The debate, which begins at 9 p.m. ET, is being hosted by ABC News. There will be no live audience and no opening statements, according to rules the network released last week. The two candidates will have under two minutes to deliver… Continue reading Trump vs. Kamala debate: predictions, thoughts

Regarding the wordcel-shape-rotator dichotomy, due to skill transference, I have observed that the latter are well-above average at the former (e.g. Curtis Yarvin, Marc Andreessen), but the opposite is not necessarily true. It’s not like one is better than the other, but I think the wordcels have a slight edge. Sure, shape-rotators make more money,… Continue reading The Wordcel Advantage

This is an interesting IQ video by Dr. Jordan Peterson: Some highlights: -There are many ways to be smart, but only a single way to be dumb. As you go higher in IQ, people tend to have more lopsided subtest results, like being exceptional at quantitative ability but maybe only above-average at spatial. -There is… Continue reading Dr. Jordan Peterson: The Most Terrifying IQ Statistics, Thoughts on IQ

I saw this from Marginal Revolution: A simple theory of which thinkers support the elites, or not: Noam Chomsky, for instance, has lowered the status of American elites. That is his net long-run effect, not that he drummed up sympathy for the Khmer Rouge. A lot more people, for better or worse, are more skeptical… Continue reading The forever-rise of elites