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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Everyone knows a good intelligence test asks you Raven's progressive matrices -- the one true sign of intelligence -- and nothing else

Edit: I was of course joking, but from my own link:

The high IQ societies Intertel and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) accept the RAPM as a qualification for admission,[14][15] and so does the International High IQ Society.[16] The Triple Nine Society used to accept the Advanced Progressive Matrices as one of their admission tests. They still accept a raw score of at least 35 out of 36 on Set II of the RAPM if scored before April 2014.[17]

Sounds like some pretty depressing societies. Give me a secret cool kids club that's all about mazes any day of the week. I like mazes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

my brain is generating a Rationalist version of That’s So Raven where instead of psychic powers she scored really high on an online IQ test and constantly updates her Bayesian priors, and I feel like I need to drink this idea out of existence before Yud turns it into an extensive fan fiction

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Delete this now. This is an info hazard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"wait, is it ALL infohazard?"
"oh come on, that TOO?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

get writing you know you have to

look, the alternative is rewriting your air conditioner's OS again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

don’t threaten me with a good time

now, between writing Rationalist Raven and braving the attic in a respirator (I’m terribly allergic to the dust around here) to finally replace my AC’s filters… it could go either way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You could also ask ChatGPT to make it for you. The idea's complete garbage unworthy of an actual writer's time, so I'd let it slide in this case

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Intelligence to me has always meant the ability to quickly absorb and apply new information. Best test I ever took for this (imo) was a kids mensa test I took forever ago on the assumption it'd look good on a college application. They tell you a short story at the beginning of the test, let you read along if you like, and then give you an hour and a half of the standard math, spelling, reading comp, and logic questions. Then the last 20 minutes they spend grilling you about the story from the beginning, with intentionally misleading questions and open ended prompts that leave plenty of room for you to hang yourself. The whole point was to see how well you absorbed the information after a long and mentally taxing distraction.

Jokes on them. I ended up going to community and falling in love with welding.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Take the MENSA IQ Challenge! https://www.mensa.org/mensa-iq-challenge/ Three guesses of what kinds of questions this uses and the first two don't count. That's right! Raven's Progressive Matrices! :D

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Half of the Finnish Defence Forces aptitude test is just RPM. The other half is a bizarre and inscrutable questionnaire, which includes questions like "is your father a good man" and infamously "would you like to be a florist".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RPM? Like how fast you can spin?

Fuck yeah I’m a finnish DF genius

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If it were about that, maybe they hadn't decided I'm NCO material and forced me into a full year of service instead of half.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I've had to do a number of "aptitude tests" in conjunction with applying for jobs[1] and RPMs have been a staple.

  1. Swedish Defense Force aptitude test (you kind of stand out as middle aged among all the yoofs taking it)
  2. one for a job at a state-owned enterprise
  3. one for a job at an outfit selling this stuff for other companies[2]

I never really got a good score on them either!


[1] I don't really like this but beggars can't be choosers

[2] like I said, beggars can't be choosers, lucklily I didn't have to take the job