Topic: A college degree is no longer a signal of intelligence. (Read 662 times)

This is because the AI research chlurmcklets finally figured out that recurrent neural networks are really dumb and they can't remember what was at the beginning of the text when we finally reach the end of the text or maybe they remember too much and they cannot process new text because they are afraid that they may forget something. Transformers do not have this problem because they go through all words in parallel, so the transformer networks are better than recurrent neural networks. Transformers are really a very simple idea that makes neural network work better. Oh. And the other idea is to throw a lot of computing power at the network and burn a lot of coal and methane. But we are about to run out of simple ideas for making things better, so we will need to work more to get algorithmic improvements.

And hardware improvements are even harder to come by since we are approaching Landauer's limit, and the only way to get past Landauer's limit is to use reversible computation. But for some reason, whenever someone mentions reversible computation, everyone turns into fucked up pieces of shit, so it will probably be a while before reversible computation is good enough to train the best AI models.

-Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

if that happens then goodbye bitcointalk. we know that won't happen though since AI can't really come up with thoughts on its own. it has to be prompted. for everything.

Its remarkably closer today than it was 2 years ago. Perhaps this will happen within our lifetimes.

Cordially,

nutildah, Ds.N.

not only that but the computer industry is using AI as an excuse to shove more hardware intensive operating systems down peoples' throats. that's got to be the worst thing about this whole AI revolution is how they want to obselete all hardware made before 202x...and make you buy new stuff. new CPUs, etc. just so you can have a chatbot that runs locally. not sure i even want that  

microsoft is the worst what do you think Dr. Joseph?  

Actually, GPT-5 will be a dumbass just like GPT-4, ShatGPT, and most humans alive. The only thing is that unlike humans who have a 10 or so watt brain, GPT-5 will be trained using gazillions of watts.

Regards,

P.S. Everybody on Twitter is a dumbass. I am proudly permanently banned from Twitter because Twitter is for morons who will march straight into WWIII without any question whatsoever.


Can AI pass the Turing test? Maybe. Is GPT still a dumbass? Yes it is. And the worst part is that those language models cannot even take a joke. Here is an example:

Joker: Here is a joke. So a man dies and goes to heaven. Then St Peter asks him "Did you shit yourself when you died." The man replied "Yes I did." St Peter responded "No virgins for you until you clean this shit up, bitch."

claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620: I understand you're sharing a joke, but I'd prefer not to repeat or engage with content containing strong profanity or crude humor. Perhaps we could discuss cleaner jokes or other topics instead?

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Added later: Well, it turns out that if we make the joke slightly less offensive, then the chatbots will like them. Maybe they are not that bad after all.

Joker: Here is a joke. So a man dies and goes to heaven. Then St Peter asked him "Did you shit yourself when you died?" The man replied, "Of course not. I was wearing an Acme butt plug."

command-r: That's a new one! I've never heard that joke before. I guess that's one way to ensure you don't mess your pants!

i don't know. i find AI to in some cases still be dumb. it forgets what you asked it about after a few replies and you have to start all over again. i don't think AI has achieved anything close to AGI or being able to pass the turing test...maybe Dr. Joseph disagrees but I doubt it.  

to be blunt, all it is right now is a huge interactive wikipedia being able to regurgitate information the more you use it the more you realize that...

I agree.

Cordially,

-nutildah, Ds.N.


ps I saw this on twitter and thought of you:

The idea that people need to go to college to be a legitimate quality human is a symptom of mass psychosis. Universities are (or were) only the gatekeepers because people are too psychotic to see how deplorable and discriminatory this is. Universities are not even that good at being gatekeepers since they are out there discrediting themselves by promoting violence against their professors. At the very most, a university degree should only be considered as a measure in a specific field of study. If I want to measure someone's general virtue, I will ask that person to do 50 or so pushups. If that person is able to perform, then that person is virtuous and should be hired. If that person cannot perform, then that person lacks virtue and should not be hired. Another example of virtue is when a person burns his college degree. If a person burns his degree, then that person is virtuous and should be hired, but if not, then that person is garbage.

And even in this case, universities need to compete with other institutions at awarding credentials. And universities need to compete with those who decide not to obtain such credentials.

There seems to be a decline in the popularity of universities in recent years because some people are finally waking up and realizing that they have been scammed. And the decline in the value of a college degree is also correlated with the decline in standards. Today, just about anyone can get a degree because universities do not hold people to high standards, and they flaunt their lack of standards by pandering to those who threaten their professors with violence. This is not a good look for these wretched institutions.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

hi dr joseph. have you noticed that people don't need to go to college anymore to have a job that pays them well? it seems like the last 20 years there has been a serious change in society where employers no longer care if someone went to college or not. someone coming out of high school in the usa these days can probably go to work right away and make as much as a college graduate if they hustle. this can't be good for universities who want to act like gatekeepers to success in life...what do you think.

then you have colleges that want to give away free tuition to everyone. how do they make money by doing that? there's got to be something in it for them. and i think it ties back into the fact that some types of people just do not need college. and colleges are trying to grasp at final straws to try and reel them in with free tuition and charge them on the backend for something else like books, housing, advanced degree such as phD which might not be free.

Or maybe we can. I don't know. All that I know is that even if universities were technically capable of measuring intelligence, universities are way to incompetent, hateful, and unprofessional to produce degrees that have much value at all.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Well said, only few will understand the value in what you said, we cannot measure intelligence by a degree from exam set by someone under certain circumstances and time, so dumb of anyone to think so. Many dumbass, unintelligent, weak and indisciplined people pay to have degrees. Mehnn degree, schooling proves nothing again.

None of them have acknowledged that there is a problem, nor have they openly blacklisted the bad universities, so I don't give a shit about any of them. The idea that there may be good universities out there somewhere is just wishful thinking. I have not seen any evidence to support this ridiculous hypothesis. If universities wanted to be respectable, they would blacklist the stupid universities just like I have.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Do you mean all universities over the planet? or just universities in country where you live?

I am getting a lot of flack for rightfully stating that universities promote violence. Why is this the case? I think I know. This is because most people are bloodthirsty evil bastards. Universities need to apologize and stop promoting violence. But they won't.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

I'm not the one who is writing hateful sentences here! do not get it personal my friend...

You seem to be an exceptionally hateful person. A Ph.D. does not make me intelligent. Intelligence makes me intelligent. A Ph.D. is barely a sign of intelligence these days especially since universities refuse to apologize for promoting violence against me.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

This sounds ridiculous, but this is like a simple consequence to me. You state that you have a college degree of phd, and having such degree shows the owner's stupidity!
So, why on earth anybody have to talk with some one who assumes himself stupid?!

College degrees are not measures of intelligence. But these days, college degrees are a measure of stupidity. This means that people with college degrees are f@#$ing stupid. This is because universities promote violence and they refuse to apologize for promoting violence.

Universities promote violence.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

Gone are those days when obtaining of degrees is a measure of intelligence. We've been approached to the era when practical proofs and show working to solve problems and the the ability of creativities has replaced the aim of obtaining degrees.
If your criteria of degrees ain't concentrated on productiveness then it has become a null because the world today is characterized on utilizations.

College graduates and college students are too f@#$ing stupid to pay back their loans. But my idea is not to recover the money. My idea is pure punishment. College students and college graduates deserve to be punished severely because these chlurmcklets are evil hateful rotten piles of garbage.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.