until you get new architectures it's all gonna be big datasets and 7 trillions

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i don't have adhd but i definitely have fked up executive function and oh boy do i procrastinate! it always has been when weeks have passed on, months even years! and i still haven't made up mind to tackle the tasks. Has led to gigantic amount of missed opportunities. I seriously fed up of it. God know makes me scared about thinking when get old and frail. Have read lots of self-help books based on "evidence backed science" only to realize that none work and the authors make a buck exploiting people's desperateness, lazy people are seriously helpless i guess.

I'm sure some people do indeed say that, as that has also been said about most famous smart people.

However, from my experience as someone who scored "off the charts" on a UK school Cognitive Abilities Test and 148 on an IQ test: any score over 130 is suspect, as basically nobody is collecting enough data to make the tests statistically valid once you're more than 2σ from the mean.

What do you mean by statistically valid? Are you just saying that the map between the raw scores and a z-score is questionable (and thus comparing scores between different tests is invalid), or are you making a deeper claim?

Both, I think. However I would also add that my understanding is second-hand, reading and watching what others have to say rather than any deep academic research of my own.

Every source I've read or watched all agree the sample sizes used when creating the tests in the first place just aren't large enough to be all that confident beyond 2σ.

There's also the problem that training on tests is effective, which limits the ability of a test to be validated on those taking it fairly soon after it gets published.

A further other issue is that most IQ tests pre-suppose the existence of a G-factor and treat differences between types of intelligence as noise rather than a signal for the existence of any multi-factor variation. I don't know which hypothesis is correct (I lean towards thinking it's mostly a G-factor, but there are clearly some things which can only be explained by multi-factor models, e.g. where a skill is entirely absent such as in the case of dyscalculia).

He's a great mathematician all right, but that is a very silly way to put it.

He's gonna fix EVERYTHING. And he's gonna do it in ONE WEEK!

For those that don't get the reference, president Camacho from Idiocracy :)

if he helps in building AGI then yes

You know, we have this thing in our company, when someone performs so well they can do other people's work.

He's really really really good at math, but is he really really really good at a bunch of other unrelated fields too? It seems silly to imply that math skills are all there is to intelligence.

I think you don't actually know about g-factor. basically what these so called 'intelligence tests' measure is the rate at which one can absorb information and apply it abstractly, how you can come up with solutions to problems by basically doing high-level abstractions, finding patterns and connecting dots, finding things that no one thought of or came to their mind. What this means is that even though he might not know about how to do other things at first once he starts delving into them he can quickly learn them and really excel in them. What these test measure is the G factor and that if you are good at one thing you'll also be good at other things and I'm not making this up there is loads of evidence for this. the most rigorously tested idea in the field of psychology/ psychometrics is intelligence. if you had to choose one single concept out the whole field it would be intelligence. you can read the g-factor and how they measure it, all the theory, stats everything and then tell me what do you think.

I'm familiar with g-factor.

But why is it that the people who always score the highest on IQ tests contribute the most to math, and only a little bit to all the other subjects under the sun?

Why aren't they also creating the greatest art, growing the greatest vegetables, and, I don't know, designing the greatest structural engineering designs in the world?

>greatest art

first, tell how one measures art

>greatest vegetables

If he does work in the field of animal/plant genetics I am hopeful he will discover great things and move the field forward

>structural engineering

again this is not what he does, and why he does math is.....i don't know what's his reason to do math, idk his motivations behind it but i do surely believe there are high-iq structural engineers out there of course they are how can you say there are none. greatest structural engineering designs made yet are actually made by geniuses or highly intelligent people you wouldn't expect a kid who fails high school to make those things do you?

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i don't want to sound like a shill but stimulants definitely help. if you really have ADHD at least try them once it will significantly improve your quality of life and help u overcome the impairment.

Yup. The meds help. It was a big improvement from less then barely functional to moderately functional.

Various people react in various fashion. Sometimes it's a struggle to find meds that you will respond well to, and sometimes you may just end up disappointed.

Nevertheless, they do help a lot of people, so it's definitely worth giving a try.

well if they can make shit up to this level why cant u say that in 200 years genetic engg would be prevalent and nobody would have to suffer due to their natural genes