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POPSThe Landscape of Possible Intelligences If we imagine the levels of intelligence as a ladder with unevenly spaced rungs, there may be jumps that some intelligences are not able to complete, or their derivatives are not able to jump. So a type 3 mind may be able to jump up four levels of bootstrapping intelligence, but not five. Since I don't believe intelligence is linear (that is I believe intelligence grows in many dimensions), a better illustration may be to view the problem of bootstrapping super intelligence as navigating across a rugged evolutionary landscape.
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POPSBill Maher: New Rules - Look Beyond The Candidates’ Skin Color Cont.... And it’s true, he’s spent his entire life shuffling from one low-paying government job to another. Well, except those years he spent in prison. Typical! And between you and me, he’s not very articulate. Oh, he may have some street smarts, but he’s not what you call an educated man. He freely admits he’s ignorant about the economy. And apparently the only thing his white running mate knows how to do is crank out one baby after another. And now of course, her teenage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Because she learns it at home! But that doesn’t mean we should assume all white people are like that, just because so many of them are.
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POPSGoldberg Flashback on Biden Cont...Listening to him speechify is like playing an intellectual game of whack-a-mole where every now and then the fuzzy head of a good point pops up from the tundra but before you can pin it down, he starts talking about how he went to the store and saw a squirrel on the way and it was brown which brings to mind Brown V. Board of Ed which most people don't understand because he taught Brown in his law school course and Mr. Chairman I'm going to get right to it and besides these aren't the droids you're looking for.. Welcome to the Dark Side...
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POPSToo Dumb To Succeed? "In any case, remember this the next time someone calls for an end to partisanship, for working together to solve the country’s problems. It’s not going to happen — not as long as one of America’s two great parties believes that when it comes to politics, stupidity is the best policy."
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POPSA Dying Breed This REALLY concerns me. I watched a video called "The Future of Food" a few years back and my concerns are only growing. Granted, I'm just a good old coal miner's daughter from WV baby, and no scientist for sure, but I've got enough people smarts to know that this isn't good.
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POPSInternational change without imposing Western values Muslim women and Christian women together: A marvelous paragraph from an author who wrote of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, whose election was made possible by a movement led by devout Muslim and devout Christian women working together.
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POPSHe Talk Like a White Boy. God bless those that raise the hand against the tyranny of opinion, those tearing down the walls and boldly facing the cynical. Any clippers read or heard about this book?
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POPS"Shallow Throat" Sizes Up the Dem/GOP Candidates
Shallow Throat laughed. "Well, of course Obama or Clinton would be better than who my party is likely to put up. But we're talking about the need for a MASSIVE overhaul in all areas of post-Cheney/Bush politics, and re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic that is Iraq is not my idea of anything major happening. The mindset that allows for war in that region of the world will not alter all that much. But, you're right, the Dems would change the tone and priorities a bit and maybe that's all we can hope for at this stage." "That's what I'm saying!"I nearly shouted. "Maybe these are not the candidates you or I would have chosen as the Democratic Party's nominee, but they are infinitely better than the rabid warhawk McCain, who knows honor and duty and 'patriotic' warfare and stay-the-course but not much about diplomacy and peace and when enough is enough. He's still fighting the Vietnam War in his head and the 'Islamofascist extremists' are, to him, the 'gooks' (his terms) of the 2
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POPS Clintons Planting For The "Common Good" Democrats would take a "risk" by choosing Barack Obama as their nominee, former President Bill Clinton said, although he said it would be a "miracle" if his wife won the Iowa caucus. Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Hampshire Saturday - where primary voters go to the polls Jan. 8 - including going door to door in Manchester. The New York senator, who just picked up the endorsement of Maine Gov. John Baldacci, hits the road Sunday on a five-day, 99-county barnstorming swing through Iowa.
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POPSKids with high IQs grow up to be vegetarians "Vegetarians were more likely to be female, of higher social class and better educated, but IQ was still a significant predictor of being vegetarian after adjustment for these factors, Gale said. "Vegetarian diets are associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk in a number of studies, so these findings suggest that a such a diet may help to explain why children or adolescents with a higher IQ have a lower risk of coronary heart disease as adults," Gale said." Not everyone agrees, of course. But it makes a lot of sense to me.
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POPSTop Ten Uses For Vinegar. Some good cheap tips here. I have always used vinegar as a fabric softener, (no, there's no smell once the clothes are dry) and as scale remover. It's a good disinfectant too and it cleans stained aluminium. Put a bit in the water when you're washing windows and bling bling, their sparkling shiny and clean. Good for cutting through the muck on car windscreens too. Uhm... what else? :roll: Oh yeah, it's really, really cheap, non-toxic, pet- and child friendly, environmentally harmless and good for your health too. :) 10 Health Benefits of Vinegar Grandma knew that her old remedies worked even if she couldn't explain to the scientific world. She knew that diluting vinegar in the ear would help infections due to swimmer's ear. Now, the American Academy of Otolaryngology endorses this remedy. There's something to be said about how smart grandma was.
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POPSRucker's Postsingular is a free, CC download! Rudy Rucker has posted his kick-ass, weird-ass post-cyberpunk novel Postsingular to the net as a free, Creative Commons-licensed download. I reviewed Postsingular when it came out earlier this month: everyone should read RR
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POPSWhat A Stablefull of The Best Hollywood Scripwriters Buys Clearly, according to our poll, the Forbes '08 Tracker, a stablefull of the best Hollwyood scriptwriters (which Law & Order can clearly command) buys you crediblity, seriousness, good humor, gravitas, and likeability. All critical criteria for presidential candidates -- at least any who really want to be elected. What it may NOT buy you is enough smarts to actually do the job (establish a realistic federal budget, not eviscerate the economy, and encourage foreign investment if not immigration). These criteria only REAL intelligence will get you. Do any candidates have any such traits this year? Stay tuned to Forbes '08 Tracker to find out !! .... --David A. Andelman
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POPSPoll Shows Decline of Science Education Unfortunately the results don't look promising. Almost half of Americans, for religious reasons, don't believe in evolution. This one statistic speaks volumes about the backward state of education in this country. Superstition and myth over reality, the facts be damned. I feel this is extremely sad and a national shame. It almost convinces me that the indoctrination of children into religious beliefs over scientific thought is child abuse. Luckily the stats on younger Americans are brighter. But don't give up on seniors; I'm over 60 and have never fallen for the myth of creation. Don't assume age equals ignorance even if the numbers seem to indicate that Boomers fair poorly when it comes to smarts. Too bad!
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