We have a Gauss-level of genius in our midst and we don’t know how to appreciate. As a minimum we should accept his SC2-related BS…
It explains a lot of why your personality has cartoonish flavor.
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Lmao. The average IQ is through the roof compared to the 1700’s. The mere fact that I have a computer and can program means I can solve problems guys like Gauss never could’ve even dreamed of. You need to set your bar far higher than that if you want to exclude me.
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LOL, the top-positions are for russian and chinese kids. USA is somewhere between Zimbabwe and Botswana in Physics/Mathematics competitions.
Those morons count on the imported brain.
Yet the USA keeps dominating on any and all problems that matter (economics).
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OMG, are you trolling or you seriously believe in this enormity?
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This can’t be true and if it’s true then the “IQ” tests are flawed.
IQ tests are very flawed. However intelligence is absolutely through the roof compared to the past. The internet alone is a complete game changer. There are loads of problems that great mathematicians in the past struggled to solve that anyone with a slight amount of programming skills can solve in like 5 minutes.
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Sure, keep telling that to yourself, maybe you will feel better.
Meanwhile Comrade Xi begs to differ.
CHYNA is struggling with the basics of civilization meanwhile the USA is racing itself to mars. Lmao. There is no competition. The only reason CHYNA is even on the map is because immense wealth is poured there by the US for their cheap labor.
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It is easier to access knowledge with the internet, but I would argue that the people themselves are not much more quick-witted than in the past. People are “smarter” now in the sense of having access to more information. It’s the difference between wisdom (knowledge) vs intelligence (capability to learn).
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First of all it’s very difficult to pin down an exact definition of intelligence. But IQ does a fair job and it is rising each generation. Having access to information that wasn’t available means they can build off other peoples’ work rather than starting from scratch. Furthermore the training that is available greatly accelerates their learning & hones their abilities much more than could ever happen in the past. If that weren’t enough, there are a host of new tools that allow human intelligence to operate at a different level than in the past. In the past they were greatly limited without access to the numerical method and there are huge swaths of problems that are simply impossible to solve without it (protein folding, etc).
Just look at the ELO rankings of chess GMs for the past few decades. Any random GM would utterly trounce even world champions from years past. The chess / AI training tools make much more formidable players that it was ever possible to create in the past.
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This is a moment when a descendant of squatters that after the genocide managed like a virus to steal a whole Continent, that have less Centuries under their belt (2-3) than Millenia in Chinese Civilization (4-5) begin to congratulate themselves…
Those sickos can’t send their astronauts in orbit without Russian help are thinking about…Mars.
+100000000000000000000000000000000000000
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Lmao. SpaceX replaced and surpassed Russian rocket makers x100. And SpaceX is only one in many American companies that now compete in that market.
CHYNA is trying to figure out how to handle basic economics while America is building satellite networks in space that will deliver internet to the whole planet.
Batz once again demonstrating that he has no idea what he’s talking about as he confuses education for intelligence.
Goba meanwhile bringing the average IQ of the thread down to a number at least one digit smaller.
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I’m sure that the better nutrition people tend to have access to today helps brain development, compared to the lack of food that the average person 300 years ago experienced. Aside from that though it’s debatable how much genetic “intelligence” is actually rising compared to the IQ tests simply being figured out.
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Yes that’s another factor. And selection pressure from evolution does it as well. The modern world is becoming more and more complex to the point people at the bottom end of the intelligence spectrum have no chance. We’ve gone from using hammers to building robotics that hammer for us. The people using hammers just can’t compete.
You hear mechanics cry about how good cars used to be in the past. It’s because modern car systems are extremely complicated and none of them have the brains needed to understand them. The modern cars are hands-down better in every way. They just can’t understand them.
There are dozens more examples.
So here is a good example of how big of a deal computers are. If you’ve ever taken Calc 2 you know how ridiculously difficult it is to find many kinds of integrals. Well, with 5 minutes of programming you can numerically compute integrals down to like 20 decimals. It doesn’t matter the kind.
This used to be huge challenge and they had to jump through the most ridiculous hoops to solve these problems. Some people spent their entire lives computing the value of PI to just a few decimal places. To this day schools STILL teach using look-up tables for finding the value of integrals rather than showing people how to compute them themselves using a PC.
Here is a decent explanation:
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LUL, it’s planned-obsolescence, just one of the disgusting traits of capitalism. Things are designed to fail way before their normal lifespan in order to artificially create demand for more junk.
On the other hand a car with 200 parts is way less prone to break-down than the same car with 2000 parts.
It’s a well known law that states that the more components the more points of failure and the less reliability…
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Planned-obsolescence is rare in a free market because you get wrecked by competition. The biggest instance was a cabal of lightbulb manufacturers who made bad bulbs to drive up sales. Well they were wrecked by 1 competitor and since then that style of bulb has been superseded by LEDs which can last decades. American free-market capitalism is to thank for 99% of the things in your life from bulbs to computers to internet. To make money you have to offer a better product at the same price, or the same product at a lower price. Thus prices go down and quality goes up. People get to vote on which is better with every dollar they spend. China is just barely figuring out how nice free markets are meanwhile American free markets are putting internet into space while also single-handedly pulling China out of utter poverty.