Theme: Measurement

  • I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measu

    I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits, plus the utility of those traits, in service of the population under the bell curve within 1 SD.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 20:26:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1078386743022444545

    Reply addressees: @nntaleb

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076845397795065856


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    @nntaleb

    “IQ” THREAD

    “IQ” measures an inferior form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects, meant to select paper shufflers, obedient IYIs.

    1- When someone asks you a question in REAL LIFE, you focus first on “WHY is he asking me that?”, which slows down. (Fat Tony vs Dr John)

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  • RE: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ON HIS IQ RANT I will still take this debate, but not

    RE: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ON HIS IQ RANT

    I will still take this debate, but not interwoven with twitter-spam. (a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits, plus the utility of those traits, in service of the population under the bell curve within 1 SD.

    Those of us with exceptional abilities favor working with our region of the bell curve – puzzles – that are of INDIRECT value rather than DIRECT value. WE HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR DECADES.

    Lastly, we go to university etc to avoid the marketplace (‘work’). This is the value of higher education: to provide a non-market means of identifying selection. In this sense your criticism is correct. In the sense that you’re criticizing IQ measurements, you’re WRONG …PERIOD.

    All of this is OLD NEWS. If you want to encourage people to prosper by pairing their skills to those necessary to serve the market that they understand, then yes. If you mean very bright people are fooled by sophism, innumeracy, pseudoscience – then yes.

    But likewise, just as it has taken you many years to migrate from the positivist search for mathematical discovery of units of informational prediction, to the demand for warranty of due diligence (falsification), you too are vulnerable to innumeracy, pseudoscience, ‘literature’.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 15:37:00 UTC

  • TERMINOLOGY: NO SHORTCUT TO UNDERSTANDING One does not criticize either terminol

    TERMINOLOGY: NO SHORTCUT TO UNDERSTANDING

    One does not criticize either terminology or deviation from normative definitions, but instead, the precision of the definitions, such that we are free of opportunity for conflation, and subsequent error.

    Each field uses terminology particular to it, and propertarianism (law) uses universals (operational names in series) across all fields. In either case we define terms that eliminate the error and potential for error in colloquial speech (“ordinary language”).

    In other words no field is, can be, reduced to ordinary language without the introduction of the vast ignorance and error that separates ordinary language from scientific language.

    That is because the existence of, and market demands for science and scientific prose evolved precisely to compensate for the ignorance, error, bias, fictionalism, and deceit in ordinary language.

    And moreover, since propertarianism serves as the scientific language of social science – including history, economics, law, sociology, morality, ethics, psychology, and language itself – we are forcing into the political discourse the same adaptation as did the revolution in physical science: and with equally disruptive consequences to normative language, ideas, ideology, religion, and language of those disciplines.

    So the criticism that we should use the colloquial speech in our effort to change social sciences from sophisms and pseudoscience dependent upon intuition and projection, and monopoly and conformity, into a form of calculation as is used in the other sciences, and divisions of cognition and labor, and conditions of cooperation, competition, and war, is rather … ridiculous really.

    All systems of symbolic calculation whether they be the small difference between spoken language and written language, or great differences between spoken language, written language, arithmetic, accounting, geometry, the calculus, relativity, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics, require training.

    The great difference is that we are all more invested in our daily use of the psychological, social, and political, such that we defend those investments no matter how bad they are.

    Unfortunately the average idiot who will readily say he understands neither advanced mathematics, economics, or subatomic physics will not similarly question his understanding of ethics, morality, and politics – thereby demonstrating his lack of agency due to malinvestment and ignorance, and genetic, gender, class, cultural bias.

    Ergo, there is no shortcut to knowledge. Calculation is counter intuitive – particularly in intuitionistic subjects.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-27 10:46:00 UTC

  • CORRECTION (to a meme) Information (measurements)> … Knowledge (paradigm) > ..

    CORRECTION (to a meme)

    Information (measurements)>

    … Knowledge (paradigm) >

    … … Conspiracy of intent (design) >

    … … … Conspiracy of common interest (interest) >

    … … … … Conspiracy of cognitive bias (bias) >

    … … … … … Conspiracy theory ( wishful thinking ) >

    … … … … … … Schizophrenia or psychosis (paranoia)

    Conspiracy of common interest: bureaucracy, marxism, postmodernism, feminism.

    Conspiracy of cognitive bias: females, christians, jews, muslims. (anti-masculinity)

    Conspiracy Theory: that conspiracy of common interest or of cognitive bias, is conspiracy of intent.

    Psychosis: contrails. lizard men. et al.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 11:19:00 UTC

  • NIT: English has 470k words in the OED, and estimates of 1M, if we account for s

    NIT: English has 470k words in the OED, and estimates of 1M, if we account for synonyms and references rather than just spellings, with 1.2-1.5M if we account for what are two and three word terms in english but one word in a compound language like german, and then there is scientific terminology. English is a very low context high precision language especially suited for science and law. (Although german appears to be better for engineering because it evolved to be.)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 21:10:00 UTC

  • Dear Overconfident Young Men

    Dear Overconfident Young Man. [W]ords mean what we define them to mean, that is why definitions evolve with our knowledge. I have to convert terms and phrases, sentences and arguments into operational language, and deconflate terms into series in order to increase precision and prohibit error, bias, and deceit. Ergo, words mean what I define them to mean. Reforming language is part of what we do here in our pursuit of defeating the lies of the left. re: A term such as natural law. Search my site for ‘a short course in natural law‘ for definitions and explanations. I use the internet for market testing, not peer review. You aren’t the peer review because you lack sufficient knowledge to function as a peer, or a reviewer. at best you are a market test of the difficulty of educating the ignorant and lazy, who demand spoon-feeding in fast food rather than engaging in educational discourse. yet i am at present investing my time in attempting to educate you anyway. because i understand the folly of young men, but also that such folly can be put to good use if correctly directed. I don’t make claims I am infallible, only that I limit myself to claims upon which I have performed the scientific method of due diligence against ignorance error bias, fictionalism, and deceit. As such it is extremely difficult to err. and I have applied this technique in many fields so I have accumulated an inventory of claims I can make with high confidence. Otherwise I say I don’t know, or the question is undecidable, or my presumption not having performed due diligence, is that this set of options is possible. I teach men by playing King if The Hill Games, and rewarding those that succeed with feedback and additional investment in their progress. The internet is a locker room and I teach men in men’s fashion: dominance play. I am nothing like this in person. This is my job and it is how I have learned to do my job by managing, teaching, negotiating with, and persuading people over decades. I have written about each of these topics dozens of times. Yet you walk into my virtual classroom and presume you are a font of intelligence, wit, wisdom, knowledge, and virtue, and have no idea what goes on or why, nor basic knowledge of the subjects spoken of, when in fact you are just another young man taught by too many women and postmodernists to have conviction despite your ignorance. I teach many such foolish young men. and those who have the intellectual honesty to admit their error are the ones I invest in. Things are not what they seem on first blush. First blush is nothing but a measure of your ignorance of the context. cheers.

  • Dear Overconfident Young Men

    Dear Overconfident Young Man. [W]ords mean what we define them to mean, that is why definitions evolve with our knowledge. I have to convert terms and phrases, sentences and arguments into operational language, and deconflate terms into series in order to increase precision and prohibit error, bias, and deceit. Ergo, words mean what I define them to mean. Reforming language is part of what we do here in our pursuit of defeating the lies of the left. re: A term such as natural law. Search my site for ‘a short course in natural law‘ for definitions and explanations. I use the internet for market testing, not peer review. You aren’t the peer review because you lack sufficient knowledge to function as a peer, or a reviewer. at best you are a market test of the difficulty of educating the ignorant and lazy, who demand spoon-feeding in fast food rather than engaging in educational discourse. yet i am at present investing my time in attempting to educate you anyway. because i understand the folly of young men, but also that such folly can be put to good use if correctly directed. I don’t make claims I am infallible, only that I limit myself to claims upon which I have performed the scientific method of due diligence against ignorance error bias, fictionalism, and deceit. As such it is extremely difficult to err. and I have applied this technique in many fields so I have accumulated an inventory of claims I can make with high confidence. Otherwise I say I don’t know, or the question is undecidable, or my presumption not having performed due diligence, is that this set of options is possible. I teach men by playing King if The Hill Games, and rewarding those that succeed with feedback and additional investment in their progress. The internet is a locker room and I teach men in men’s fashion: dominance play. I am nothing like this in person. This is my job and it is how I have learned to do my job by managing, teaching, negotiating with, and persuading people over decades. I have written about each of these topics dozens of times. Yet you walk into my virtual classroom and presume you are a font of intelligence, wit, wisdom, knowledge, and virtue, and have no idea what goes on or why, nor basic knowledge of the subjects spoken of, when in fact you are just another young man taught by too many women and postmodernists to have conviction despite your ignorance. I teach many such foolish young men. and those who have the intellectual honesty to admit their error are the ones I invest in. Things are not what they seem on first blush. First blush is nothing but a measure of your ignorance of the context. cheers.

  • But in the end you’re just poisoning the same well we eventually drink from. Wor

    But in the end you’re just poisoning the same well we eventually drink from. Words and priests are cheap, unwarrantied, and without cost. artists, soldiers, craftsmen, engineers, lawyers, accountants, executives, and financiers ACT to produce an end for which they pay the cost.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 12:49:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076097317365792768

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  • What surprises me is that it’s not obvious that there is a difference between re

    What surprises me is that it’s not obvious that there is a difference between reality and action and cost and imagination and speech, and not bearing a cost – and that those of us who have achieved in life in the markets for force and commerce, and those who achieve in life …


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 12:44:23 UTC

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  • 6) … computation, valuation, and action (or prohibiting, computation, valuatio

    6) … computation, valuation, and action (or prohibiting, computation, valuation, and action) is not something open to dispute. Nor is the great leap forward provided by the singularity of development of language in the division of sense, perception, memory, and cognition.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 12:11:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076087757984931840

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    @TrueDilTom @justecar @Imperius__13 @JohnMarkSays @torinmccabe @DataDistribute @MahmoudZaini @Dick71224996 It’s bad enough we have left wing liars taking advantage of women and the underclass, but it’s hard to understand why there are those of you who want to take advantage of lost, underachieving young man and throw them in the degenerative maelstrom with the women and fools.

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    @curtdoolittle

    @TrueDilTom @justecar @Imperius__13 @JohnMarkSays @torinmccabe @DataDistribute @MahmoudZaini @Dick71224996 It’s bad enough we have left wing liars taking advantage of women and the underclass, but it’s hard to understand why there are those of you who want to take advantage of lost, underachieving young man and throw them in the degenerative maelstrom with the women and fools.

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