Tim Verstynen / is on Nostr

What is intelligence?
Department Gadfly
Data Alchemist
Synthetic Psychologist
Zombie Apologist

Make billionaires extinct (again)

Pronouns: He/Him
Lab website: https://www.cognitiveaxon.com
Life goal: Be the Bill Drummond of science

Last Notes

2024-09-12 11:31:50

Someone had to say it.
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2024-09-10 15:56:43

So the standard for tonight's #debate seems to be.
Harris: Has to perfectly straddle a line between being prosecutorial, but not too aggressive, and not alienate the middle, but also energize her base, while also presenting clear policies, but not coming across as too wonky.
Trump: Has to not urinate himself on camera.
Tell me again how we live in a fair, non-sexist society?

2024-08-30 21:11:21

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I am hopeful for that change too. I’m not sure the general genius has ever been true, but the stereotype is definitely harmful. So as those of us in the Ivory Tower, maybe it’s up to us to change the narrative

2024-08-30 16:25:39

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Yeah, this pattern of many academics in this heterodox space. Steve Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, and Nicholas Christakis are people who had great insights in a narrow domain who then embraced the image of a generalized genius as a brand. Incidentally they all share one thing in common. They all have the same literary agent named John Brockman. So, not to sound too like a conspiracy theorist, but my guess is that this type of pivot sells a lot of books because it fits with a cultural frame/stereotype that "elite" academics are general geniuses (instead of specialists).

2024-08-30 14:55:01

No one:
Absolutely no one:
John McWhorter: Joy is really just coded racism
(How this clown is considered an expert on anything is just beyond me at this point)
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2024-08-17 04:38:35

Don’t you all think it is little weird that, as a society, we have all just accepted the fact that lithium batteries are basically ticking time bombs with a low, but not insignificant, probability of spontaneously bursting into flames?
Like would we accept it if pens just randomly blew up, risking blowing your hand off?

2024-07-08 19:43:37

I'm having a hard time understanding what antisemitic tropes were on display in these texts that got three administrators at Columbia in trouble.
Can someone help me out? What am I missing? Is it the reference to fundraising?
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