2016-10-03 at 3:52 AM UTC
Yeah. What do you even do on the internet? If you're honest fam. Do you just shitpost on forums? Watch youtube videos? What kind of youtube videos do you watch? You probably should do something more useful with the time you spend on the internet. For instance, learning how to code is pretty do-able on your own, you can download ebooks, go to forums much like this one and actually learn something useful. Wouldn't it be cool you could code something nice? And it works? Also, don't mind me just shilling for computer science, and your fucking future. Because developers are in high demand, just the other day i was reading about an Italian company that offered to relocate developers and their family to Italy, with a massive salary and two hour lunch breaks. Wew lad, eat pasta and pizza all day and when you're off shout BELLA BELLA to all the pretty Italian girls, like the locals, because when in Rome do as the Romans do.
But anyway, this thread is pretty serious actually. In general i try to spread my free time evenly between 50% entertainment and 50% learning and figuring out how shit works, because why wouldn't you? We have all of humanity's collective knowledge at our finger tips let's do something with it for fuck's sake.
I could learn it but I'd never be able to get past low-level skill. If I had a knack for computer-programming then I would. If I could master any skills I'd pick that, chemistry, or something like auto mechanic.
2016-10-03 at 7:02 AM UTC
Not everyone has the same level of genetic cognitive ability.
2016-10-03 at 8:49 AM UTC
No, a concise definition for intelligence is "the ability to deal with complexity". You should give in mind various social factors, such as people clustering with those that are similar to them, and cognitive biases, like mind bias, curse of knowledge, flaws in theory of mind.
Many people don't have a proper grasp of just how dumb average is and why people are the way they are. The average 4 year university graduate has an IQ about a standard deviation above the mean, and they still tend to be fucking morons (think r/politics). The problem is how low the bar is set, the sad state of humanity.
Unfortunately most people are just hopeless with our current level of technology, good for not much more than grunt work, tending turnip fields or whatever it is the commoners do.
2016-10-03 at 10:03 AM UTC
Sure but wouldn't you say that if you explain a certain process, or method or what have you to someone in a lot of simple steps that you reduce the complexity? Making it possible for the person to learn what you are talking about? Also, i do tend to think most people on here are above averagely intelligent.
2016-10-03 at 10:41 AM UTC
That reminds me of a study conducted on savants or child prodigies, something along those lines. They found that the common defining factor was a working memory in the 99 percentiles, the amount of data you’re able to store and manipulate. Other findings suggested it was a form of, in their words, “moderated autismâ€. I found this while researching working memory and intelligence/genius; related to the substance PRL-8-53.
Think of an advanced problem in the STEM subjects, such as mathematics, sometimes you can’t split things further, simplify them. Of course you can’t split advanced equations in half and have two people solve them, then combine their answers to get the response and have each of them fully understand it. It has to be contained within a single mind. That is where the importance of and limits of human intelligence are truly illuminated. Psychometric thresholds.
2016-10-03 at 11:18 AM UTC
I play video games. I want to make video games. I also like drugs and watching cute girls on YouTube. What else is there to do?
2016-10-03 at 11:54 AM UTC
what code should I be learning?
2016-10-03 at 3:37 PM UTC
I usually play counterstrike 1.6
I also use the internet to share photos on videos on snapchat, as well as facebook and sometimes instagram