It seems like clickbait but it is actually true: how often this cube appears to “switch” orientation for you is correlated with your ability to come up with innovative ideas in divergent thinking tasks. (The average person sees 12-13 switches per minute) https://t.co/7YQmv7s5so pic.twitter.com/vEAjZfPBGl
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 2, 2022
Uh oh. It basically never switches for me. I think I’ve seen that happen once or twice…in my entire life.
There are people who think Zero Covid could still be a thing, or ever was a good idea?
Huh. Takes all kinds I guess.
Emirates’ Terrifying Boeing 777 Flight To Washington.
So they didn’t follow the pre-flight checklist and also weren’t really looking at their fucking instruments while taking off. Doing 210+ knots on the ground? What the FUCK! Pull back on the yoke!
BTW, I think the rated tired speed of most of those 777s is around 205 knots, so they just got fucking lucky some or all of the tires didn’t explode. Even then, they still most likely would have been able to take off, but landing would’ve been a whole other issue.
I have never been as afraid of anything as people with very low risk are afraid of Covid.
And I’ve jumped out of planes, people have attempted to stab me twice, I’ve had loaded guns pointed at me in anger more than once and I’ve been in dozens of fights.
So…yeah.
The Yudkowsky-Moore Law of Mad Science: “Every 18 months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) October 4, 2015
It also takes motivation to want to destroy, which not many high-IQ people have.
But yeah, give me $5 million and two years, I could make a virus that kills 90% of humanity. I don’t even think it’d be that hard considering what is already published on the internet. I have absolutely no interest in doing that, but someday soon someone smart will.
These days, I don’t think it’s related as much to IQ, even. Anyone with an IQ above 120 could do what I mentioned up there. It’s more a matter of funding. Now, it’d cost $5 million and you’d need a staff (10-15 people). In 15 years, it’ll cost $500,000, and you will be able to do it alone. That’ll make the most difference.