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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

This IQ test question was making the rounds the other day. See if you can answer is before peeking. Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek The…
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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?
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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts, longer and (I hope) more informative than the old way of having three to four short, standard…
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

I don't know who wrote Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican's new encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence", but he (or it?) appears to not have…
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

In proving foresight may be vain:The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ MenGang aft agley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis’d joy! Lennie said, "I thought you was…
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