This is some of the most chilling stuff to come out so far. I may be naive, but I have to imagine that the FBI can figure out who sent those messages.
They were respectful to law enforcement yo
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maybe some kind of p90. idk. im not a big gun guy.
the moleskin?
White guy 
System working as designed.
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I think it looks weird here because the stock appears to be cut off in the picture
what if I told you some of them are already seated?
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is this the guy we dragged on 2+2 a few years back?
ah yeah, I predicted in may 2016 that Trump would pick him for VP!
extremely good DVAUT1 thread about langan from the old days:
some real classics in there, govman, ikes, me dunking on feltstein, good times
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An entire IQ thread without Sklansky popping in? Never thought it could happen.
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I missed that thread the first time. TomCollins of all people nailing it right out of the gate.
I guess I hadn’t wandered over to politics yet. It’s pretty fascinating idea - especially if it’s true that Langan now thinks the election was rigged. Definitely lends credence to the idea that emotion always Trumps reason. Either that or he’s right o_O.
What I’m really curious about though - is to see an answer this guy got right that say a 160 IQ person might have missed, or not done in the allotted time. And then have it explained to my dumb ass of course.
The best I can imagine it as that IQ is a measure of how much you can juggle in your brain simultaneously. Essentially how much RAM you have. How many things can you consider at the same time at basically the speed of electricity, before you have to put one of them down so you can juggle a new thing? IE - Durrr can simultaneously consider more outcomes to a hand than most other players. He doesn’t have to reason through it in chunks as much, which takes longer and requires a lot more mechanics and room for error in reconciling the chunks. But that might be way off.
Oh dear:
Writing compelling arguments to support his ideas (ala Borodog) might be a good start instead of claiming that his supposed intelligence magically makes him right.
Borodog enters:
Lots of extremely smart people have terrible opinions about subjects they’ve never thought deeply about, but rather think they “know” that the correct answer is “obvious.” They would never think of doing this with quantum mechanics, for example, but have no problem doing it with things like economics and evolution.
Send the guy a copy of Man, Economy & State with Power & Market and get back to me after he’s read it.
You were doing so good dude. Just need to cap it at one paragraph.
By the way I just figured out after several years of my floor lamp flickering intermittently, that I put a non-3-way CFR bulb in a 3-way floor lamp, and it only flickers when I have it on the lowest setting (IE lowest wattage).
I R GENIOUS
Stay tuned for my spicy takes on eugenics and Dominion voting machines.
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no
it’s a measure of how good you are at IQ tests
there is probably some really loose correlation to what we think of when we use the word “intelligence” but it is very,very clear that these tests absolutely collapse at the high and low ends of that spectrum
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Ok, but what goes into being good at IQ tests? Like what specific thinking task can a 200 IQ brain do that a 150 IQ brain can’t? I’d love to see an example. I’m sure it’s about speed of completion.
Some good info here.
You’re probably right on some level. I mean anything a 150 could do we could probably train a motivated 120 to do with the right program. But there are limits to this. We’re never going to teach a 70 to do multivariable calculus.
I know that everyone likes to shit on Gladwell, but this is kind of similar to a point that he makes in one of his books. Once you are smart enough, it doesn’t really matter that much, you can get the rest of the way with effort. I think he is mostly right about that.
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