Video games also have potential legal advantages over IQ tests for companies. You could argue that "we only hire people good at video games to get people who fit our corporate culture of liking video games" but that argument doesn't work as well for IQ tests.
yet again an original post title that self-sneers
The entire article reads like a stealth sneer.
Yea to be fair to IQ tests horoscopes are also really inconsistent.
Wow, sounds like IQ tests kinda suck. Maybe we shouldn't place so much importance on them.
Spoiler tagging this doesn't make it not an irrelevant humblebrag.
Oh shit, this guy invented art competitions!
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.
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.
Ahahahahahaha
I dunno, let's ask someone who peer reviewed it.
When I was at school there was a kid who earnestly believed that he would, as an adult, build a nanobot machine to do modern day alchemy by rearranging the component particles of atoms, but he is, as far as I know, doing good and normal things out in the world today
I find myself thinking about this story frequently in a sneering context
I was that kid growing up, mostly for fantasies around AI and the singularity
some of it was due to a natural pull towards reading a lot of sci-fi, but looking back a lot of it was indoctrination from the same folks who’d much later be responsible for the cultier strains of Silicon Valley thought. the idea was that the only way to become a great programmer who would change the world was to adopt certain clusters of ideas and hobbies, but the actual goal from the folks doing the indoctrinating was to turn as many young minds as possible into weirdo ancap libertarians with no personality outside of being exploitable labor
It’s kind of amazing that when I was growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s you heard a lot of silly season rubbish about nanobots, grey goo, unlimited life extension, humanity living in pods, and all this, only to discover as an adult and AFTER having already begun to devote some amount of your free time to dunking on Eliezer Yudkowsky that actually it had all along all been coming out of this very specific media-oriented cult or proto-cult amongst the same people who were flogging Netscape and palm pilots
fucking right? that’s what goes through my head when I sneer — tracing a line from jankily paying for unnecessary crap on eBay using an unregulated bank to those same mediocre assholes who could barely do an online bobcat bank having their own mythologies
I had that idea the second I learned that diamonds and coal are made of the same atoms, ngl.
I put charcoal into a potato mashing thing and squeezed, was disappointed when I got no diamonds.
I read this as:「These feeble minds cannot possibly measure my intelligence ! It's over 9000 !」
This «I am very smart» lad must've received a disappointing score, which I suspect explain a great deal of his rant, humblebrag and all.
That or it is indeed satire (although too much effort as gone into the author's blog, that if is satire it's more sad than funny).