BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-03-18 Fr: I must say that owning a modern computer has made me a person with zero tolerance for any claims that there is a single thing called “g” for “general intelligence” among humans. It seems to me to spring from too many people having too naïve an approach to the world that has led them to generalize inappropriately from early von Neumann-architecture machines. This Beast on my desk is not really a von Neumann architecture machine. Yes, there are registers and there is, somewhere, a load-process-store cycle. But there are 10 processing cores. The old separation between hardware for basic and for floating-point arithmetic—I do not know where that went. There are Graphics Processing Units—lots of them—doing lots of things other than graphics processing. There is a Neural Engine, and what it is doing different and better than the GPUs is beyond my comprehension. There are video-processing afterburners. There are caches and dispatch logic to try to keep the cores filled (they are failing). And there are the memory-swap processes enabling virtual memory—this particular machine’s hardware-plus-software Akhilleus’s Heel, at least when it encounters multiple webpages from <http://bloomberg.com>. Ask me, ask anyone, “What is the general computational intelligence, the ‘g’, of this machine?” and we will simply laugh at you…
Offhand it sounds like something is off in Safari (or ads?).
Anyway I think you've discovered that g (or whatever) is affected by alcohol consumption. I suppose resistance to alcohol is one version of g. Maybe an important one even.
Offhand it sounds like something is off in Safari (or ads?).
Anyway I think you've discovered that g (or whatever) is affected by alcohol consumption. I suppose resistance to alcohol is one version of g. Maybe an important one even.