One of deepest conversation you may ever listen to, betw @trishankkarthik & S. Wolfram. Touches on computational irreducibility as determining free will, the structure of the universe... Covers w/o knowing: ship of Theseus, mind-body & rigid designators!
2) My problem w/ IQ
1 Can detect deficit =>shows fake corr in + domain [nonlinearity]
2 Specificity: needs to predict application (domain general). Goat faster than Ferrari in Corsican hills; no measure of speed exists w/o specific prediction.
3 Math
Stephen framed 2) with CI.
3) My own 3 ½ hours of conversation with Wolfram. We just scratched the surface.
4) Around 57:00 in the @trishankkarthik discussion he explains how computational irreducibility can only be dealt with with via negativa.
This indeed is the deepest conversation I've listened to in recent years.
And, Trishank, Zone 2 it was indeed.
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Nonlinearities are hard to grasp. Check the correlation video: when association is piecewise data pseudoscientists get confused.
PS: the same applies to IQ.
Statists (state worshippers) & libertarians are utopians in the same pathological way, sharing a fortune-cookie representation of the world, life, history & the future; w/identical blindness to details & mechanisms. The same applies to academic IYIs, wokes & cryptoutopianists.
2) As they say, science is hard, more difficult from the inside than it is from the outside. The same with probability, decisions, and business. And, of course, the same with governance & public matters.
The problem is abstraction.
3) To see how ill defined "freedom" is by naive libertarians:
Should I be free to drive counterflow ("wrong way") a yuuuge twelve-wheeler truck at its maximum speed on my highway of choice and is it government "coersion" and "power grab" that is preventing us from doing it ?
2) This is the classical problem of naive optimization. You optimize on one dimension, causing hidden side effects in other dimensions.
3) For those slow are getting it, here is the strongest man (of his day), a Soviet Olympic weightlifter. You optimize in one dimension (weights lifted), you lose on another.
And yes, athletes have a lower life expectancy than healthy people who work out moderately.
Many are still unaware that many blonde women from Texas with names like Carol or Joanna fighting vaccines on Twitter are in reality some fellow called Boris, who, from a drab Soviet era building, runs dozens of such accounts using fake I.P. addresses in North Macedonia.
Disinformation doesn't work with big lies (high noise discredits the source).
Experts manipulate groups then spread memes, like the "cold winter" in 80s (from an illusory "paper" by the KGB who owned German anti-nuclear groups & played media scientist Karl Sagan like a violin).
3) Notes
a- Error: I meant "nuclear winter", not cold winter.
b- And, no North Macedonia has nothing to do with the Soviet Union; it's where the floating IPs are located (as well as, for some reason in Kossovo).
c- Trolls appear to have reading comprehension.(Low-skilled job.)
VACCINE RISK
Even if vaccines have not been around for long, the sample for the Covid vaccines is so yuuuuge that we can already see what risks they don't have & proceed by elimination.
This is not a precise estimation but the framework to work with.
2) This does not count the infections that were *avoided* by vaccines (conservatively estimated > 50%).
PS- I blocked Peterson 2 y ago when he invited me to do a podcast & didn't know much abt him. Went to his feed, listened to a podcast, was horrified, and blocked.
Fine print: (Clearly there is a possibility that the virus became suddenly 10x less deadly or that the old miraculously ceased to be infected in favor of the young or that the agencies are paid by Pharma to lie and other ad hoc arguments)