Somebody smarter

[Derek]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This student with the 23 A levels has a <span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">U.S. accent </span></span>
Oh, I see. He is from Pakistan. That explains it </div></div>
His English teacher was probably American.










<span style="font-size: 8pt">
I once met a lady who I thought was Irish. She was Dutch and had never been to the UK.</span>

[MsPeaches]

Re: Somebody smarter



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">His English teacher was probably American.</div></div>

My late Brother-in-Law was a Greek man who spoke English with an impeccable Scottish accent: he had learned English from Gerald Durrell.

He was a genius. I once gave him the classic riddle :What is the difference between a thief and a church bell?&quot; The answer is supposed to be 'One peals from the steeple and the other steals from the people.&quot;

He thought for a moment and said &quot; One rings and the other doesn't.&quot;
That man was <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">smart!</span></span>

[Derek]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">than Dr Dudd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7863473.stm </div></div>

So which qualifications do Mr Dudd possess?

[RichD]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">than Dr Dudd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7863473.stm </div></div>

So which qualifications do Mr Dudd possess? </div></div>

engineer ...economist..physician........

[jah_yout]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> &quot;IQ&quot; is a very mis-labelled, mis-understood &amp; mis-used term...

intelligence can not be measured with neat scores...there are too many factors &amp; variables for people to just casually throw out some statistic like it's a definitive measure of intelligence </div></div>



jah_yout,

Whether it has any importance to you or not, the other statistic on IQ that is significant is that the IQ of the human race in general has been found to be going up at the rate of 3 points per decade.


Should this growth be subject to the exponential growth factors in Kurzweil's predictions, we will be quite a bit more intelligent in the next 50 years or so as that 3 points per decade goes into rapid acceleration.

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i call this horse-$#!+....

thousands or millons of years and we are no more intelligent now than we were then...

we are still savages, raping &amp; killing...except we have designed machines to improve on our maiming &amp; killing

[Wahalla]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">than Dr Dudd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7863473.stm </div></div>

So which qualifications do Mr Dudd possess? </div></div>

engineer ...economist..physician........ </div></div>

All deh above....according to mi data base...

[mangoskin]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=johnnycakes][quote=jah_yout]

i call this horse-$#!+....

thousands or millons of years and we are no more intelligent now than we were then...

we are still savages, raping &amp; killing...except we have designed machines to improve on our maiming &amp; killing </div></div>lol-human NATURE hasn't changed...

[johnnycakes]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=johnnycakes][quote=jah_yout]

i call this horse-$#!+....

thousands or millons of years and we are no more intelligent now than we were then...

we are still savages, raping &amp; killing...except we have designed machines to improve on our maiming &amp; killing </div></div>lol-human NATURE hasn't changed... </div></div>



Oh ye of little faith!

If you are believers do you really think an intelligent designer with super intelligence would create something as flawed as you see humanity?

As said , the good part about the events that will be happening, discoveries that will be made and the breathtaking technological and societal advances that are coming with the exponential growth curves, will happen regardless of what you, jah-yout and others down on the potential of humanity think .


All you have to do is live another 30 years or so.

It will all unfold as you watch and are pleasantly surprised.

[Peasie]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So which qualifications do Mr Dudd possess? </div></div>

he's gifted and talented

[jah_yout]

Re: Somebody smarter

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=johnnycakes][quote=jah_yout]

i call this horse-$#!+....

thousands or millons of years and we are no more intelligent now than we were then...

we are still savages, raping &amp; killing...except we have designed machines to improve on our maiming &amp; killing </div></div>lol-human NATURE hasn't changed... </div></div>



Oh ye of little faith!

If you are believers do you really think an intelligent designer with super intelligence would create something as flawed as you see humanity?

As said , the good part about the events that will be happening, discoveries that will be made and the breathtaking technological and societal advances that are coming with the exponential growth curves, will happen regardless of what you, jah-yout and others down on the potential of humanity think .


All you have to do is live another 30 years or so.

It will all unfold as you watch and are pleasantly surprised.
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yet that flawed creator created flawed humans &amp; now those flawed humans will design perfect machines to correct our flaws...
so we will have to become robots to become perfect?
and to think my computer caught a virus over the weekend...
we have not figured out how to stop viruses or the common cold but everything will be perfect in 30 years?

yah..o-tay

let's pick up this convo in 30 years God-willing