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BlackSwanMan

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BlackSwanMan··on Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is. Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns
This isn't really correct. How they decide what an IQ of 160 is, is by get thousands of people together, asking them questions and seeing what percentage of the population get which questions right or wrong.

Questions that are tagged 160 are irrelevant because they norming group is WAYYY to small to say 1 in 30,000 people will get this correct. It's simply not possible to come up with such a question. They questions that get you 160 on IQ score are almost certainly questions that no one in the norming group got correct.

So no, there's zero proof that 1 in 30,000 people have an IQ of 160. There simply haven't been that many IQ test administered to the general population to determine that.

BlackSwanMan··on Why did Google Brain exist?
I can't imagine being such a sucker that you care this much about your former employer? You're like a housebroken dog.
BlackSwanMan··on Google DeepMind
lmao do you have any idea how much time medical students spend studying the STEP exams(prior to them becoming P/F)
BlackSwanMan··on Google DeepMind
There's literally millions of kids who think a fat man with a beard delivers them presidents once a year if they're nice.
BlackSwanMan··on ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate
The privilege knowing that bitcoin is pointless scam for halfwits?

Yeah I guess having a brain is a privilege

BlackSwanMan··on ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate
The cheap version does all of that much worse. I don't understand how people can be so cheap.
BlackSwanMan··on AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
This will be great for Kenya and other countries like it.

A really bad problem in these countries is their best in brightest are too busy doing service jobs for Westerners than doing the work in manufacturing and infrastructure that builds their capital base.

BlackSwanMan··on Google DeepMind
GPT4 can pass the the neurosurgical medical boards, most of the people laughing at it are typically too dumb to note the difference between 3.5 and 4.

>pushing the bottom out of the labor market and actively making the lives of the poorest worse in order to line their own pockets.

This makes zero sense. GPT4 has little effect on a janitor or truck driver. It doesn't pick fruit, or wash cars.

BlackSwanMan··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
No one said Stable Diffusion would put Disney out of business but nice straw men