unreasonable man

PhD candidate Chem. Eng @ CSUOhio
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Outsourcing today's difficult thinking often means outsourcing tomorrow's intuition.

[kache @yacineMTB]

you get better at doing things by doing things

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

This just reminds me of the r/cognitivetesting subreddit. Filled with a bunch of people worried about their cognitive tests and "intelligence" without focusing on doing any real work. For me this seems a completely futile enterprise. Intelligence is utilitarian; an instrument. I think everyone should strive for impact; to do great work. In doing this you will find your limit (or not). I've always found people that obsess over "actual intelligence" to be people who are not really focused on the work but instead on ego-stroking.

[David Holt @IDrawCharts]

this is actually the best measure of "is this person actually intelligent"

are they (or do they actively learn to be) relatively good at everything?

if not, they are just highly-trained, whether self-taught or otherwise

which is a different thing

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

I agree. Mostly with the idea that people like to paint "intelligence" as such a broad brush. In the comment section you'll see people say things like "Perseverance is also a kind of intelligence", or "High agency is a kind of intelligence". This insistence on using intelligence in this fashion takes away from the specificity of language and blinds us to other incredible virtues in life. This is the major reason why I think "emotional intelligence" is a dubious term to describe social skills like empathy, self-awareness, etc. These traits are virtuous but they don't necessarily need to fall under the "intelligence" umbrella.

But yeah, one needs to be careful not to assign to intelligence only desirable outcomes.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

The VC fraud said this first. Others are still repeating the trope.

Ray Kroc, who created the current McDonald's, said:

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

The only true test in life is perseverance and satisfaction from the result. Success can also be largely due to luck, which fools people into believing they are more intelligent. The cemeteries are full of unfulfilled intelligent people.

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

Here’s how I see it; you can choose Messi over Ronaldo as greatest footballer and that’s okay. But when we start to get into disingenuous territory is saying things like “R9 is a better goal scorer than CR7” or “CR7 is not top 2 greatest footballer”. Can’t even take you serious atp

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

Andy Goldstein clashes with Simon Jordan after he said Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Lionel Messi 🔥

#fifaworldcup

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

@samoalfred Yes. And it’s useful in so far as it frees time up for experts to focus on their innovative work.

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

To do what with it?

[0.005 Seconds (3/694) @seconds_0]

I understand the sense of loss software engineers have felt at the ai wave but as a person who never knew how to code, i basically am being granted increasingly powerful superpowers at an affordable monthly rate over the last few years

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

The gaslighting FINAL BOSS.

Watch Safe Space 🆓 on Tubi.

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

What kind of “1+1 = Eba” kind of analogy is this?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I still don’t understand why Nigerians are obsessed with adding B. Sc, M. Sc, PhD, ACCA, FCA, MCIPM and countless letters before or after their names.

A country where insecurity is rising.
Poverty is deepening.
Hunger is everywhere.
Electricity is unreliable.
Schools are failing.
Hospitals are struggling.

Yet our biggest obsession seems to be titles.

A society that worships credentials more than outcomes will keep producing people who look qualified on paper but cannot solve real problems.

The countries leading the world are not led by title collectors.

They are led by problem solvers.

Nigeria has no shortage of certificates.

Nigeria has a shortage of real solutions.

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

@samoalfred 😂 I meant it in a funny but also serious way. Because I see that although LLMs have given us the ability to do more, I’m not convinced that (majority of ) people have used it to make their work better. Only to do more volume of mediocre work.

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

@Tega_Gabriel Noted

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

You both should be able to see through the media narrative mehnnn… you have to be able to understand that whatever grabs the headlines is (almost always) not the full story. Not just in this case, in all cases of attention-grabbing headlines, the quotes is always stripped of its context. You gotta be able to look beyond that.

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

@gabriel1 Although I understand the point of this tweet, I think writing (long) prompts ultimately gives better prompts because in the process of writing you produce a clearer, more coherent thought (prompt)

[Janty @CFC_Janty]

The dopamine of scrolling through twitter when Cristiano Ronaldo scores

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

Very repulsive… it was so annoying to listen to because one couldn’t even get objective commentary on the game.

[Betty @BettyAngyy]

@scooptroop69 This comment made pissed me off. The Messi glazing by these guys is repulsive.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Favour Y. @FavourYusuf1]

Now you know just how important social media is.

With NYSC, at least you all have to travel hundreds of miles to the same place for you to "see" everyone doing it.

But with social media, you can be in the comfort of your room, and an algorithm feeds you enough information that you simply assume that something is normal, even though it actually DOES NOT exist anywhere close to you.

Congratulations, your brainwashing is complete.

😌😌😌😌

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

@AskMichaelTaiwo The team quality. Team quality

[unreasonable man @lanrey_yahya]

@Onyinyechi____ Likeeee…. I’d choke eating like this