shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on Shitpost 3 days ago:
eh, not everyone will get the meaning the first time they encounter a new usage, but if it makes sense to most people it’ll be used more
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 5 days ago:
the test wasn’t personalised for me, IQ tests can’t be personalised as the IQ result is derived from how far you deviate from the base 100. you can’t reliably figure out the standard or compare people to it if you give every other guy a different test
the only personalisation you get is tests that cover lower or higher results. the most generic ones focus mostly on +/-2/3 standard deviations and become inaccurate at the borders. if you’re a genius, or mentally disabled then you need a different test if you want to figure out how big of a genius/disability you got
but yeah good idea to ask an actual professional, hope you find the answers you seek
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
fair points Mr AssTits, but there’s one thing i’ll nitpick - if you are always given a culturally neutral test - how are you supposed to check the various types of intelligence, when the culturally neutral test is just a bunch of logic puzzles, it only tests for logic. it’s impossible to test for debate ability, or musical abilities, or any other abilities with culturally neutral methods. even for a debate skill you need linguistic skills and langauges are heavily influenced by cultures they function in.
i took an IQ test with a licensed psychologist, WAIS for adults to be specific, and it was indeed based on the polish school curriculum. it supposedly measured 3 metrics: logic, language, emotion (not exact names of those metrics, forgot those). logic was just logic puzzles & memorising stuff, langauge was word definitions, and i assume an analysis of how i expressed myself, and emotion was honestly dumb and included sayings and idioms which??? i’m neurodivergent i get these wrong all the time, but i can read emotions and behave maturely quite well. then an average of these was taken and presented as my general IQ
i came out of there thinking how it’d be impossible for me to score well if i didn’t have the privilege of attending good schools, or just being lucky (there was a section of culturally important figures, one of whom was Maria Skłodowka-Curie who also happened to be a patron of my primary school so, yeah i kinda knew a lot about her)
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
T–T
if even one person learnt something new today i’ll consider that a win
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
it was at -1 when i saw it, which is what prompted me to attempt to give a step by step process leading to the conclusion you gave as it seemed to me folks just lacked context
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
IQ testes only test logic puzzle solving skills (& memory sometimes), so there is no way for you to measure your own actual intelligence, let alone your autistic kid’s
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
to those downvoting this comment -
your IQ test results might as well be your zip code
for a proper explanation, check out Bell Curve by Shaun
for a personal interpretation & in large part summary of the above material:
IQ tests are not a general smartness tests, that is impossible to measure. IQ testes measure your ability to solve logic puzzles, and that supposedly measures your logic itself (at least the tests that have no cultural bits, the ones that include cultures also have some testing of your memory based largely on your country’s school curriculum. more on why that’s a problem later)
can someone be naturally amazing at logic? of course, they can, but that skill needs to be nurtured, or at least allowed to flurish. and this is supposed to happen in schools.
now what happens when a person with the potential to score high in an IQ test doesn’t enjoy the privilege of peaceful learning? what happens when their family life is difficult? what happens when during their schooling years they have to focus on surviving, instead of learning and nurturing their skills? well, they score lower, of course. their potential doesn’t disappear, but it gets used in a different direction, to help them survive in life. and logic puzzles don’t play a big role in survival so that particular skill is not tended to and therefore doesn’t develop as well as it could in ideal circumstances.
now let’s look at racism. we’re not talking about day to day racism, though that also plays a part, but institutionalised racism - the one that keeps pushing minorities into poverty, and keeps them there harder than white people, because as we know, poverty is a trap that’s difficult to get out of even for those not pushed into it with institutional racism.
add the two together - IQ tests measure your logic puzzle solving skills, which develop only if you have access to decent schools & you’re allowed to learn without interruptions, without having to worry for yourself or your family. institutionalised racism pushes minorities into poverty, which means they lose access to good schooling, and have to worry for themselves and their families from an early age.
this in turn results in minorities scoring lower on those tests, but not because they are stupid, but because their intelligence has to be used for surviving, and they are not allowed to comfortably indulge in solving logic puzzles to develop the skills that IQ tests look at to “measure intelligence”
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
i never joined mensa, though i had the option to. and yeah you just confirmed all the reasons why i hadn’t lol. entitled dudes who believe so hard that results of a test make them better than others that they are approaching actual delusions of superiority, having to sit among people like that would make my blood boil
well, i suppose it’s a logic puzzle skills test, not an emotional intelligence test.
i despise how IQ is almost revered by the overall society, and i hate how, despite everything, that stupid result does make me feel good about myself, tempting me to feel better than others
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 1 week ago:
god i wish ancient enemies wouldn’t lead to modern problems, signed - a polish person
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
i always use this as an example of how deeply the languages we use shape how we understand the world
even the answer to the question “how many fingers do you have?” changes depending on the language, and that’s a physical fact that seems to not have any degree of subjectivity to it
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 3 weeks ago:
isn’t china struggling with deflation nowadays, though? they can afford things perfectly well, they just don’t do it
(correct me if i’m wrong i know fuck all about economics)
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 3 weeks ago:
a language might be a tool we use, but it absolutely shapes the way we see the world itself to a significant degree, even to the point where speakers of different languages might disagree on basic physical facts
eg: if you ask an english speaker how many fingers they have - they’ll answer 10. but if you answer a polish speaker - they’ll answer 20. polish makes little linguistic distinction between fingers, and how we call them, foot fingers
this is one example of many. i find it deeply fascinating and quite scary. it feels weird to realise that my understanding of the world is broadened and structured better thanks to the fact i use a language to describe it, but there might be things i’ll never notice, or will always confuse, simply because the tool i use is not perfect, and yet, that is the basis through which i perceive the world
- Comment on Sage advice from COWK and her infinite well of esoteric wisdom. 3 weeks ago:
the TV is big and slow, a computer, more nimble, can outrun the ads, the TV is too slow to even attempt dodging
- Comment on Accidental rapture 4 weeks ago:
Eve was made from a man’s rib, so in a way at first she was a clone of his flesh, XY chromosomes and all. The bible does not elaborate on how the abrahamic god made her into a woman, she was able to bear children so there was definitely a change made to the “original” masculine reproductive system, but we don’t know at what stage of her becoming a being that occured. Either way though - Adam’s rib was transed by god themself into a woman.
now i’m wondering how all the christian terfs would react if someone said that trans women are actually the original women
- Comment on Throw enough spaghetti at the wall and some is bound to stick 4 weeks ago:
we live in a world where people say stuff like that and mean it, the /s is just so for once we can be sure
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 5 weeks ago:
similar tone
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 5 weeks ago:
big difference between someone using a tool to polish an already complete piece of music and someone using a tool to make a piece of music for them
- Comment on idk 5 weeks ago:
it takes 8 min for your kettle to reach boil? why
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
this therefore means every gay man is old
and butch women (or simple women who dislike dressed) never get old
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
any and all UI changes will make people angry
steam has had so few of them compared to idk youtube that, imo it’s fine even if it’s kinda pointless
- Comment on Happens everytime 5 weeks ago:
but then when i spin in bed like a rotisserie chicken it all comes off :(
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
when non-US folks share things that are supposed to he funny and/or relatable, we usually convert our currencies to dollars as most people know how much that’s worth roughly
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 month ago:
the only pause it gives me is when i notice nonsensical details blending into each other, the only emotion it moves in me is then disgust and foolishness as i just spent time on slop that was not an expression of something, but an intentionless imitation of one. and it sure as hell doesn’t make me self reflect as it manages to be both shallow and hollow
it’s not AI “art” itself that sparked a conversation, no singular piece stands out as something people talk about (a piece that is more than just a more seamless version of the pervious attempts, something memorable even after it stops being the best at imitation). The talk is not about AI “art” itself it’s about the idea of it. Nobody points to a single thing AI made and claims that is proof it’s not art, because it’s not individual pieces that “make us think” – it’s the concept of an intentionless thing being fed human art and then making misshapen copies of it at the whims of people who can’t be bothered to engage with art at all.
sure it does make you thing, but only if you - knowingly or not - treat the entire emergence of AI slop as a kind of performance art itself, any individual piece of slop is not the topic here
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 month ago:
i’m reading enough into your comment. i literally explained why that wouldn’t change much
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 month ago:
never mind a canvas, if the guy cared in the slightest about the “art” AI made he’d at least print it on poster paper
this experiment shows how even the “artists” just do not care about those images, and why would they? why would any of us care?
this shows exactly the core of the issue - every piece of art made by a human, no matter how good or bad (whatever that means), is a reflection of the artist. Sometimes they pour their entire soul into a piece, sometimes just a small part of them, but it’s always a reflection of them. So the artist will care about what they’ve made because it’s their own self, in a way. And others will care about it too, because we crave to get to know others, understand them, see the world how they see it - and art allows us to glimpse just that.
AI slop elicits none of those emotions, there is no artist to care about, no reflection of the self, mo worldview to glimpse, no way of caring about it, nothing – even if it was you who wrote the prompt, you just can’t bring yourself to give a shit
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 month ago:
wow, it seems like it’s printed on printer quality paper. really amplifies how those who use AI for “art” don’t give a flying fuck about art
- Comment on Killer title 1 month ago:
i thought it was just a thicc ass orca, added an eye to show my vision thicc orca made out of a pie chart
- Comment on What a lucky woman 1 month ago:
i could tell you that without burning through a litre of water
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 2 months ago:
i’m way too lazy to have alt accounts, just seems like a lot of work and i don’t even know what i’d use them for
- Comment on 3-bean soup 2 months ago:
fair enough
