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6σ intelligence looking for friends and patronage!

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Hello @GeneSmi96946389, Do you know what was the risk of myopia for all embryos ? I suspect one with ADHD have higher risk compared to highest IQ embryo despite myopia correlating with intelligence.
https://t.co/7zAQ9mXPUv

[Gene Smith @GeneSmi96946389]

Crazy new twist in this story: when she asked the doctor which embryo he would have picked without Herasight's screening, he pointed to the one with the lowest IQ.

If they didn't have this data, their kid would have lost about 24 IQ points.

[osteoarthritis enthusiasm possessee since early ch @arthrosis_anon]

"i've never had friends" is the most common single thought i have. it's been looping in my head for years. it repeats like a mantra, with little variation or expansion. my mind naturally returns to this loop. my brain is screaming at me to solve the loneliness thing but i can't.

[osteoarthritis enthusiasm possessee since early ch @arthrosis_anon]

of my cognition and just drift forward through time. i constantly remind myself that staying alive is the only thing i currently do that truly matters, and as long as i keep doing that, all my other failures are irrelevant.
one day everything will transform, so just endure.

[osteoarthritis enthusiasm possessee since early ch @arthrosis_anon]

so many young people outside with their friends or loved ones. seeing them is so painful. they're all having fun socializing. my life would be so much better if i was capable of that. waiting for the singularity would be a ton more bearable. i wish i could turn off large portions

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

Prior to 1800s, most scientific discoveries were made by non-affiliated researchers, after that, it was most or nearly all of them in recent times.

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@UBERSOY1 Forget someone ?
https://t.co/pqVdWP732B

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AdrianDittmann Rudyard Lynch has potential

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Everyone in a prestigious and highly credentialed position knows someone lacking prestige and credentials who they consider frighteningly intelligent.

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@robinhanson Even sophisticated funds use momentum as guiding strategy.

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Zero. Why play dumb zero sum (or negative sum) games when others are playing positive sum games in times of peace ? Every society however should be ready for war.
https://t.co/qZIBOQmksa

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

Moriori of Chatham Islands had a law forbidding war and cannibalism; disputes were handled by restraint, ritualized conflict, & conciliation. In 1835, Māori groups arrived from mainland New Zealand. Moriori debated resisting but chose not to break law. Newcomers conquered, killed, & enslaved. If they'd not practied war for long enough, even voting to fight would not have been enough. So to what extent should all societies practice war, even if neighbors now peaceful?

[Simon @_smcf]

@number_pizza111 Sub5 birdcel is insufficiently blackpilled; the fact that it looks like it takes effort gives her the ick. True lekkmaxxing featherchads didn't have to work hard for it.

[kalomaze @kalomaze]

"wtf howd it know how to sharpen the miku"
ahh, the frontier of structured image transformation from like ~2017-2018

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It will take decades to verify novel predictions and if you want society of smart+rational people then it is better to target 18-40 demographics and selection criteria be standarized tests than steering towards correct direction over long time period.
https://t.co/v7Je21BFc6

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

1. Smart people are often, if not usually, very irrational. I grew up with a mid-140s-IQ-tested dad who believed in Biblical literalism. Intelligence is just a powerful engine, it says very little about your ability to steer.
2. Most prestige in our civilization is built around powerful engines. You get good test scores, pass hard classes, you are 'smart', and we stamp you with phDs and titles like Economist or whatever.
3. (Having well-rounded skills can help but does not save you. You can be a charming top-tier artist who still falls for a crypto scam).
4. Our civilization has very little explicit study into being *rational* - which is, imo, something like 'holding true beliefs'. You might be like 'well 'true' is relative', it's people just disagreeing about values all the way down - but I think this is wrong! There *is* such a thing as 'correct' - you can do things like cure cancer or lift people out of poverty, those are real things!
5. If we want to optimize for people steering in correct directions, we might do things like "have them make predictions about the way things will go, and then track how accurate they are." We might force them to "make beliefs pay rent", where you regularly put your beliefs into positions with high stakes so you can't just conveniently 'not notice' when you're wrong. There's a *ton* of stuff to do in this domain that is completely abandoned by people in academia (though you can find it in stuff like investment funds where they actually end up hurting if they're wrong).
5. When I say smart *and* rational, I mean people who are very good at steering in correct directions, with enough power to get there. I don't think most people in this culture even have a conception of these as meaningfully different!

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

Age distribution of scientists that made major discoveries (historical) or did Nobel prize winning work.

[🇨🇦halogen @halogen1048576]

@tendollardanny literally how buddhism started

[Kyle Smith @rkylesmith]

"To be declared a genius at one thing is to begin to believe you are a genius at everything." -- Noah Hawley correctly describes the hubris of the tech-zillionaire generation.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

If all the smartest+most rational ppl got their own civilization on it would be LEAGUES better than this one, just more functional in ways we can't even imagine, and like 90% of it would be downstream of their ability to understand incentives and ripple effects

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@GeneSmi96946389 Wild if we could know his PGS percentile for IQ. 😭
https://t.co/rJp7ncL8fh

[Arthur B. @ArthurB]

There's still DNA in them thar bones.

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@bryan_caplan I can provide you a code that predicts exact moment of stock crash or upward thrust for any timeframe ? Would you help me get a job ? Maybe just preach through the post. 🤷

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

@Phoxotic Retarded take, ironically proving the limitations of IQ for assessing intelligence
the point of tests is to have a prior BEFORE results. This is extraordinarily useful.

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@greegle_mudzone Same is true for Gym too.