/sci/lit/ thread

[Anonymous No.9902140]

[Anonymous No.9902149]

>>9902140
Singularity is a meme

[Anonymous No.9902305]

>>9902140
Haven´t read it, but i love just looking at Nick when he speaks. He is so spaced out...

[Anonymous No.9903788]

Your thread would probably have had more traction had you provided a summation of the text and elaborated on several of the core points.

[Anonymous No.9903793]

>>9902140
>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.9903799]

>>9903788
I haven't read the text at all but here it is:
intelligence is like height, we might know what and how it is influenced, but you are stuck for the rest of your life with what you already have no matter what

[Anonymous No.9903806]

>>9903793
/thread

[Anonymous No.9903830]

>>9902140
10/10 book

[Anonymous No.9903835]

I bought this book. It was too difficult for me to read.

[Anonymous No.9905272]

>>9903835
/pat

[Anonymous No.9905319]

>>9903799
>but you are stuck for the rest of your life with what you already have
That isn't entirely true, since you could be 20 years old and only speak English, and by the time you're 30 (assuming you had dedicated the necessary time), you could be fluent in Spanish, Japanese and Arabic, in which instance you would have effectively quadrupled your working vocabulary.

The point being that supposedly the capacity for crystallized intelligence and abstract thought had been preemptively determined from birth, but obviously this isn't true because then both a) you would be incapable of learning anything new past a certain point and b) evolution along the lines of intelligence would be impossible, since human brains aren't capable of evolving in a intellectually nourishing environment.
^ The implication from this line of reasoning is that humans aren't capable of undergoing neurogenesis, or replacing synapse endings, which simply isn't true, but still widely believed.

The same is also true for people who enroll into university for the first time when they turn 30 (surprisingly common these days), and then graduate, haven become more intelligence / smarter than they were before they enrolled, yet the cultural zeitgeist around intelligence has us believe that this is an impossible feat since they are past half-way through their life-span.

Even someones height can still increase past "peak development" if they supplement Human Growth Hormone (it causes all bones to grow - your feet, hands, rib cage, etc), meaning that environmental factors continue to have causative effects throughout our life.