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howunfortunate

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    Comment #49559720

    That's not what the parent comment said though > any human for which we spend $100billion - $3 trillion...would be able to reach all of those levels

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    Comment #49559567

    IQ tests are incredibly good at what they're designed for, which is discriminating relatively higher intelligence humans from lower intelligence humans. Also discriminating within …

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    Comment #49558841

    Some results, sure. But that list is extremely ambitious. Write a best seller, make a popular game, come up with a truly novel theory, consistently outtrade index funds. That's top…

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    Comment #49558191

    I think I view humanity fairly positively, but I admit I would gladly take the other side of that bet

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    Comment #49555310

    You're absolutely right - filler words are genuinely load-bearing

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    Comment #49540325

    I'd really like for some country to ban all ads, even if just for a while, so people could observe the quasi-experiment. My personal bet would be the country would suffer for it qu…

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    Comment #49540287

    It may be that you just aren't a big spender. My experience with performance adtech was that 95% of the energy went into targeting whales, with a focus on products that drive massi…

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    Comment #49523177

    I won't weigh in on whether it's "cheating" but it is definitely benchmaxxing