1. 1/5 of us debt is held by sovereigns. Countries listed + EU have similar and in Japan’s case far higher debt/GDP.
2. Your countries are woke, poor, and weak. Your countries also love importing the 3rd world and committing demographic suicide.
You’re throwing a fit because the US is asking you to step it up. Managed decline is pathetic. I wake up thankful every day that I don’t live in Europe anymore.
@LucyGoth@Enrique2657@Jhonffonseca You're not equal if you're not self-sufficient... If you live on your parents dime, your parents make the rules, not you.
Why do you feel so entitled to American resources?
You're more concerned with the words than with the stance of leeching off the American taxpayer...?
Had Europe complied in 2017 when Trump began asking for an increase in military spending, none of this would have been an issue. Most EU countries are like children throwing temper tantrums.
🚨New podcast episode🚨
This chat w/@rjhaier covers more ground than any other episode. Topics include:
➡️The newest frontiers in neuroscience & IQ
➡️Whether society is warming up to IQ research
➡️New orgs that advance the field of intelligence
Watch:
https://t.co/F7s1FqhFg4
Inconsiderate bikers taking over the #Brickell area is unacceptable and dangerous.
Our quality of life agenda includes freedom from being run over by bikers harassing pedestrians for sport.
Our residents feel abandoned. This ends Dec 9 when we take #Miami back.
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@237LAC@NickJFuentes Please provide one ounce of evidence that Israel had anything to do with “those Middle East wars”fought by the US. You are the brainwashed one, not those “boomers”.
What does it really mean to be intelligent, and can AI meet that standard?
In this new episode of The Human Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Dr. @GillesEGignac to discuss two of his most influential papers on defining and measuring intelligence.
https://t.co/eVYY3whi3l
The charlotte train stabbing situation has some obvious solutions:
1. Repeat offenders need to stay in prison
2. Prison needs to be made much less pleasant with prisoners forced to work. Those who refuse can be flown and dumped on an island to fend for themselves
3. You need zero tolerance for stuff like fare skipping on public transport by combining police with the right to put hands on people with barriers that cannot be hopped. You need to keep the people who can’t or won’t pay out of public areas because they’re oftentimes violent and toxic.
4. We need to get the drugs out of the country. There is likely a causal relationship between drug use and people going insane and then committing violence. Sorry but the problem is not speedboats 1000s of miles away. It’s in the country where we have open air drug markets, multiple in every city.
5. Ban the groups that pretend to help the homeless and make it illegal. You’re begging? Go to jail. You live on the street? You go to jail. Fast trial and once you’re in prison you work. Don’t like that? Off to the island so you can spend time with more people like you. No evil or expensive government punishments required.
You know what’s not a solution? Dumb takes about black people. Or concealed carry. You want a 100 pound Ukrainian woman to carry a gun? Insane. Complaining about DEI is useful insofar as it allows you to make the above race blind changes. Otherwise it’s irrelevant. You just need to change the enforcement here. The fact that this has not happened in a single city or state since 2020 shows that the system is deeply broken.
Stuff like improving education, which no one ever does anything about despite it being essential to the future of the country, or having jobs available to our uneducated male citizens are also important but that stuff is much harder to pull off. The above is relatively easier, but yeah sure let’s go blow up some speedboats and put Korean Hyundai workers in chains on tv 🙄
@michaelpatron0@amazon@dharmeshmehta@amznsellerhelp we're having the same issue as well -- cannot send inventory to AWD. You guys are single-handedly ruining what was once a thriving marketplace for sellers. Amazon is a logistical and operational nightmare since the changes made in Q1 2024.
We're launching the new Human Intelligence Podcast. In the inaugural episode, we're talking with Ivan Kroupin, first author on a new study on the influence of schooling and culture on measures of executive functioning.
https://t.co/ENkuQVl25Y
Exceptional ability is, by definition, rare. And exceptionality in more than one area simultaneously is even more rare. In a new article, @GillesEGignac estimates how rare it is for a person to have high IQ, conscientiousness, and emotional stability all at the same time.
Based on correlations of r = -.03 (IQ and conscientiousness), r = .07 (IQ and emotional stability), and r = .42 (conscientiousness and emotional stability), Gignac estimated the expected percentage of people who would be above different cutoffs on all 3 variables simultaneously. The results:
➡️16.27% of the population is above average for all three variables (cutoff z = 0)
➡️0.9366% of the population is "remarkable", which is above a cutoff of z = 1 on all three variables
➡️0.00853% of the population is "exceptional", which is above a cutoff of z = 2 on all three variables. That's 85 out of every 1 million people.
➡️0.000005% of the population is "profoundly exceptional", which is above a cutoff of z = 3 on all three variables. That's 1 person in every 20 million.
The lesson is simple: Finding people for jobs or educational programs who are significantly above average on multiple variables can sometimes be very difficult. As Gignac states in the article, ". . . there may be a tendency to overestimate the availability of candidates who excel across several domains. This lack of awareness may lead to unrealistic expectations in recruitment processes. Therefore, individuals who consistently score even slightly above average across key traits like intelligence, conscientiousness, and emotional stability may not be fully appreciated for their rarity and value."
And most won’t be. Inputs are often commodities. If your cost of living is 1/5 of someone in China, you have 1/5 the margin pressure when operating in China. The American distributor model (how most materials are sold to companies) also inhibits low input prices. In a globalized world, inputs are usually not cost competitive. Regulations won’t really help this.