MacBookPro Brought to Its Knees at Last!, & þe Stupidity of Believing þt “Intelligence” Is a One-Dimensional “g” Even in Machines, Let Alone in Brains, &
MacBookPro Brought to Its Knees at Last!, & þe Stupidity of Believing þt “Intelligence” Is a One-Dimensional “g” Even in Machines, Let Alone in Brains, &
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.
"A Feb. 25 op-ed in The Los Angeles Times by Jeff Rogg, “The C.I.A. has backed Ukrainian insurgents before — Let’s learn from those mistakes,” cites a C.I.A. program to train Ukrainian nationalists as insurgents to fight the Russians that began in 2015 and compares it with a similar effort by Truman’s C.I.A. in Ukraine that began in 1949.
By 1950, one year in, “U.S. officers involved in the program knew they were fighting a losing battle. … In the first U.S.-backed insurgency, according to top secret documents later declassified, American officials intended to use the Ukrainians as a proxy force to bleed the Soviet Union.” This op-ed cites John Ranelagh, a historian of the C.I.A., who argued that the program “demonstrated a cold ruthlessness” because the Ukrainian resistance had no hope of success, and so “America was in effect encouraging Ukrainians to go to their deaths.”"
"In his LA Times op-ed, Rogg calls the 1949 C.I.A. program in Ukraine a “mistake” and asks the question, “This time, is the primary goal of the paramilitary program to help Ukrainians liberate their country or to weaken Russia over the course of a long insurgency that will undoubtedly cost as many Ukrainian lives as Russian lives, if not more?”"
Is Biden promenading Zelensky to play Russia? Or is Putin letting Zelensky keep hero posing to encourage Biden to over sanction thus letting Putin say he was forced to break with the West and cozy up to China? Or ???
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.
Brad, I'd be interested in light you could shine on the following.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/18/us-militarism-in-russia-around-the-world/
"A Feb. 25 op-ed in The Los Angeles Times by Jeff Rogg, “The C.I.A. has backed Ukrainian insurgents before — Let’s learn from those mistakes,” cites a C.I.A. program to train Ukrainian nationalists as insurgents to fight the Russians that began in 2015 and compares it with a similar effort by Truman’s C.I.A. in Ukraine that began in 1949.
By 1950, one year in, “U.S. officers involved in the program knew they were fighting a losing battle. … In the first U.S.-backed insurgency, according to top secret documents later declassified, American officials intended to use the Ukrainians as a proxy force to bleed the Soviet Union.” This op-ed cites John Ranelagh, a historian of the C.I.A., who argued that the program “demonstrated a cold ruthlessness” because the Ukrainian resistance had no hope of success, and so “America was in effect encouraging Ukrainians to go to their deaths.”"
"In his LA Times op-ed, Rogg calls the 1949 C.I.A. program in Ukraine a “mistake” and asks the question, “This time, is the primary goal of the paramilitary program to help Ukrainians liberate their country or to weaken Russia over the course of a long insurgency that will undoubtedly cost as many Ukrainian lives as Russian lives, if not more?”"
Is Biden promenading Zelensky to play Russia? Or is Putin letting Zelensky keep hero posing to encourage Biden to over sanction thus letting Putin say he was forced to break with the West and cozy up to China? Or ???