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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.

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    1. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @SebSteele0 @clairlemon

      Sure it does. Everything Taleb says is simply false. Someone with an IQ of 130 can probably make it through an undergraduate physics curriculum: someone with an IQ of 120 probably won't. That's one threshold: there are thresholds for everything.

      2 replies 6 retweets 26 likes
    2. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @SebSteele0 @clairlemon

      If you're trying to break Enigma, you want smart hombres. 110 won't do it, 120, won't do it..

      1 reply 4 retweets 14 likes
    3. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @SebSteele0 @clairlemon

      Kids in the top hundredth of a percent can do things you cannot, like get a 96% score on an AP biology test after a 3-week course. After zero previous biology.

      2 replies 5 retweets 19 likes
    4. Seb Steele‏ @SebSteele0 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @clairlemon

      Kids who do well in one low-dimensional test do well in another low-dimensional test. Fab, still has no bearing on high-d life or, say, actual discoveries in biology or solving Enigma.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @SebSteele0 @clairlemon

      But it _does_ have a bearing on actual discoveries, and on breaking Enigma. As for having no predictive power - simply false. Has plenty. Not 100% , but what do you want, egg in your beer?

      1 reply 2 retweets 16 likes
    6. Seb Steele‏ @SebSteele0 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @clairlemon

      But does it? Beyond dead man bias? i.e. IQ 0 yeah you probably won't but above 70 all bets are off. Discovery is much more bricolage than intelligence.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @SebSteele0 @clairlemon

      That's just nonsense.

      1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
    8. Seb Steele‏ @SebSteele0 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @clairlemon

      Which bit do you not like? IQ tests select for those who think the answer to "What comes after 1,2,3,4-?" is 5. Which is FALSE. It's very believable that someone who thinks that way is less likely to discover something, and I the data I have seen does not refute that hypothesis.

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    9. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @SebSteele0 @clairlemon

      Since I know something about most of the more prominent inventors and discoverers of the last two or three hundred years, it turns out that your picture is entirely wrong.

      3 replies 4 retweets 19 likes
    10. Seb Steele‏ @SebSteele0 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @clairlemon

      It's entirely consistent with those I know _of_ and those who I personally know. They're all smart, for sure - but not IQ test smart.

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      Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon 1 Aug 2019
      Replying to @SebSteele0 @gcochran99 @clairlemon

      Great - you have a way to estimate intelligence and you're an engineer. Now design a test that's a superior measure of intelligence that measures whatever it is that you're claiming you observe when you know someone is "smart for sure" but "not IQ test smart" (hint: you can't)

      12:30 PM - 1 Aug 2019
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        2. Seb Steele‏ @SebSteele0 1 Aug 2019
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @gcochran99 @clairlemon

          I don't think you can test for it. To be fair, I don't place that much value on my judgement of who is smart although it is at least multi-dimensional.

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        3. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon 1 Aug 2019
          Replying to @SebSteele0 @gcochran99 @clairlemon

          "I can't test for it" "I can recognize it" Those are contradictory

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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