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The power here is supposedly that no authority can override your desires on your plunder system because it will eventually be a frozen spec, and so virtual machine runtime implementations that are correct must run any program from any time after the freeze. That means a vm I make today will run programs a thousand years from now (probably inefficiently) and a vm created in a thousand years must run programs from today. Theoretically speaking.

Yes that's what a spec means. Like wow I can write puts("Hello, world!") and it does the same thing on every ANSI C compiler, how novel!

Markets are just the average sentiment of a mass of greedy people trying to make a buck, there is no inherent prediction power.

HN user tarsinge putting it perfectly here

The entire article reads like a stealth sneer.

Is it "consistency of results on a single IQ test type"? Not really. Wikipedia says: […]

That's a best-case scenario for tests designed with that criteria as a priority, and the range is still significant.

Is it "consistency of results across different IQ test types"? Not really; that's obviously worse than the above, and many "non-IQ" tests have comparable consistency.

Yea to be fair to IQ tests horoscopes are also really inconsistent.

Is it "practice being mostly irrelevant"? Not really. A few practice runs can often be worth +8 points

Is it "working for an unusually wide range of intelligence"? Not really. IQ tests are notorious for working poorly above ~135

Wow, sounds like IQ tests kinda suck. Maybe we shouldn't place so much importance on them.

and I'd say they only really work well for -20 to +0 relative to the designers, with a somewhat wider range for teams.

My ACT score was in the top 0.1%, but I don't feel particularly proud of that, because it wasn't evaluating any of my actual strengths. I left college after a semester (while that was a failure from the perspective of society, school was holding me back intellectually) but I still took the GRE for...reasons...and got a top 1% score without studying, but that's not something I consider particularly meaningful either. Here's a theory of Alzheimer's I developed - what test score does that correspond to? As for IQ tests, I had a couple proper ones as a kid, and my scores were probably as high as was very meaningful, but probably less impressive than reading Feynman in 3rd grade.

Spoiler tagging this doesn't make it not an irrelevant humblebrag.

It might not be as objective, but people could compete on aesthetics too.

Oh shit, this guy invented art competitions!

When people smarter than the test designers take an IQ test, they often have to guess what the designers were thinking, but with video games, evaluation can be completely objective.

Guessing what a test designer thinks is a cognitive task so surely high G people can do it better. I don't see the problem.

The bandwidth and scope possible with video games is much higher than with IQ tests. You can test people with bigger problems, like remembering the units in Wargame Red Dragon, and multidisciplinary challenges, like optimizing both cost and visuals of fireworks in Kerbal Space Program; そういえば、ゲームのウィキの英語を理解することはまたテストのもう一つの側面でしょう.

Random-ass Japanese for no reason. Weeb detected. Ironic how the non-English sentence muses about testing proficiency in reading English.

I propose that from here on out people will be ranked by a test that involves dad jokes and making spiteful remarks about TESCREAL fandom.

The pink hair and piercings types generally have fertility below replacement so will not last.

Leave it to the inventor of acausal torture AI to understand cause and effect. Other highly meaningful statistical indicators of having few children might include measuring lenghts in feet, speaking Norwegian, wearing a kimono, working in AI research, using the word "nootropic" or having a passport from a wealthy post-industrialized country.

Since a number of people have claimed that this is #Fascism, I should note that I don't think fascism is a good idea; the core problem is that fascism as it existed in the 20th century was fragile due to too much central control from a small number of powerful individuals.

Palingenetic schmalingenetic. We should simply have a decentralized majority voluntarily choosing to implement these dietary restrictions, arranged sexual partners, online censorship and whatever abridgement of religious freedom cuts down on "virtue signaling" in his mind.

I wonder if Roko has ever considered converting to Wahhabist Islam?

"The main problem with fascism is that it didn't last" is not the convincing disavowal of fascism Roko thinks it is.

Hi, everyone!

I wanted to create an astronomical number of accounts on behalf of all the people who didn't support the creation of this instance, just so they could be banned forever, but that wouldn't be very aligned of me.

Let's have fun sneering together until Yud nukes the server.