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Vouched for your comment because it's spot on. It's for gold nuggets like that I'm happy there's the showdead option!

If there are indeed "idots" in society in a sense that they have physical or mental problems, I think looking down on them is wrong.

But I really wonder if there are "idots" at all. What's most likely is that tech people are angry that non tech people have different tastes and preferences, and by virtue of being a larger group, have the market cater to them.

However, who's to say that for example teaching is more important than the NBA? TikTok success should be a cause of celebration, as it means people with different tastes that weren't served by the market, now have an offering that makes them happy.

If you don't like it, don't participate. I don't like cellphones, so I don't operate one. Yet the few times I've had a friend show me funny stuff from TikTok I've been legitimately happy for them.

"De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum".

EDIT: BTW I checked your other comments, you don't bother with the niceties and speak your mind. And you are a goldmine! I especially loved the great content you gather about IQ and theory of the mind on https://i.redd.it/i1ywg8dajac71.png

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zozbot2343y ago· 1 in thread

The biggest problem with the content you link is that it was gathered from convicts. Why would you assume that they'd care about looking smart to some random researcher? Also the way I.Q. scoring works, there's roughly as many people with <90 I.Q. as >110 I.Q. and so on. Even assuming that these accounts are true, they're likely heavily influenced by that environment.

csdvrxOP3y ago

The content is questionable, but I'm a firm believer in testable hypothesis, and this collection connects together very nicely different fields (ASD, IQ, theory of the mind, computational cost) of interesting testable hypothesis for models that could be tested with a different population.

It made me think about how IQ may just be an estimation of the Kolmogorov complexity threshold of problems a human brain can compute.

It's certainly influenced by the environment and many other things: for a computer equivalent, the CPU is not all that matters: you need RAM (working memory, IIRC the human brain "stack" is on average 6 elements), SSD (memory of experiences) but it was thought provoking and I'm genuinely grateful to the shadowbanned poster for having exposed me to such interesting ideas!