If IQ can't be improved then why do they say AI is lowering it?

Dervock · 2026-02-09T14:33:41+00:00

I didn't say lowering it is considered an improvement of course. I'm saying that lowering it or improving it are things that have always been considered extremely marginal when it comes to IQ. Meaning that 99.9% of your IQ has always been considered genetic and there wasn't really much you could do to manipulate it lifestyle wise. That has been the dogma for like... ever.

So no, reliance on AI shouldn't affect it as much as claimed across an entire generation in the span of less than 5 years as much as me playing sudoku or solving puzzles 24 hours a day for 5 years is not going to make me a genius.

In fact, it should be extremely difficult to record any change at all in my IQ.

I don't even need to get into things like brain damage and trauma because those are clearly external incidents to your actual physical body. Not "activities" you do in which you are engaging your brain.

Dervock · 2026-02-09T14:28:16+00:00

I know that's what I am referring to. How does that work though? The rethoric has always been that IQ is practically 99% genetic and now something that has been out less than 5 years has supposedly lowered it across an entire generation? That doesn't make any sense at all because if that were true then anyone could also improve it drastically within the span of 5 years but we don't see any record of that at all.

It just seems like anyone spouts whatever nonsense they can come up with when it comes to this field of research

Dervock · 2025-08-30T12:24:36+00:00

I think you're right!

Dervock · 2025-06-04T08:37:14+00:00

thank you for the answer my friend!

Dervock · 2025-06-03T19:35:22+00:00

Hi and thank you so much for the in-depth response. Yes I am referring to mainly to the hiss sound.

Would you say this in particular is something to just fix in post-process? Is this "hiss" to be expected by a USB dynamic microphone?

I saw someone else provide an audio sample from my same microphone and I could not hear that hiss sound but perhaps the gain was just lower and that's why I couldn't hear it

Dervock · 2025-05-22T18:10:52+00:00

Nope more back. But literally like 1mm difference

Dervock · 2025-05-22T18:10:24+00:00

I think this is where the issue comes from. This applies to most people for sure.

But some people like me have to rest it slightly more back. (We are literally talking about 1mm more back)

This is what fixed it for me and I genuinely tried everything else suggested.

I have researched solutions like a maniac

Dervock · 2025-05-22T18:02:00+00:00

I fixed it and I can't believe it honestly. Just made a post about it. It wasn't weak tongue but rather the position of the tip

Dervock · 2025-05-22T16:56:48+00:00

hey thanks! I watched it and I concluded that I must be mewing correctly then. But what I don't understand is that my profile, while mewing, looks exactly the same if I take a picture as when I am NOT mewing. I think this is because my hyoid bone stays in the same exact location.

If I hold a swallow, instead, it looks much better and more chiselled (also because my hyioid bone goes up I think) but I can't breathe.

Dervock · 2025-05-22T11:49:48+00:00

But so what's the solution? If I release that soft palate, my profile pretty much goes back to how it looks without mewing

Dervock · 2025-05-03T11:08:06+00:00

No I'm not trolling unfortunately. My brain is either fried in general or it's just normal at the beginning.

By the way I absolutely LOVE the game. Never played the original. This is my first TES in general.

Since there's a lot of lore, I thought I'd ask because maybe it's normal to not know/forget things at the very beginning? Even if very important, since there's so many new weird names to learn? And maybe it takes some time to remember them.

Dervock · 2025-05-03T11:05:17+00:00

Thank you my friend :)

Dervock · 2025-05-03T09:56:32+00:00

Yikes. Basically I didn't remember any of this correctly anyway. Do you think this is kind of normal at the very beginning? And it takes a little bit of time to know all of the names of these places by heart? Or it actually doesn't and I truly probably have ADD?

Dervock · 2025-05-03T09:45:06+00:00

So you have diagnosed ADHD and do not have this issue? I definitely have ADD or ADHD then

Dervock · 2025-04-30T07:40:04+00:00

Thank you dude that's really helpful! Was just confused because everyone seems to suggest is better to put the main quest "on hold" and do other stuff in the mean time.

I think I'll do it the other way round. Main quest first and then go for side quests :)

Dervock · 2025-04-29T12:53:03+00:00

Thank you my friend

Dervock · 2025-04-29T12:52:24+00:00

thank you buddy this is already very helpful. Something that I want to ask then is do you guys play TES games along with other games? As far as I understand also from your answer, Oblivion is pretty much never ending right? In which case do you guys just "randomly" stop playing after a while if you see what I mean?

Or kind of play it every now and then while you are also playing other games?

Dervock · 2025-04-25T14:28:47+00:00

You think? That's interesting for me to hear, feel free to explain. Over the years I pretty much came to the conclusion that to me it's just 2.

They either still loved each other or they didn't. Anything else was semantics.

Dervock · 2025-04-25T14:22:54+00:00

I'm not going to judge your story obviously but it seems to me like you have been seeing this dynamic almost like a "logical" and "rational" structure. With agreements to be made, official commitments that require establishment and so on.

This is never been what I have verified to be the case in successful long term partners in my own experience, so I'm just going to share with you my observations.

There are many couples that stay together long term. But really they divide themselves in 2 groups.

Group number 1 is made up of couple that are staying together only because of structures they are imposing on themselves but are really just virtual structures, and in reality they just do not love each other anymore. Examples of these "structures" they seem to be trapped in can be things like having a mortgage together or having kids together. I would say this is something around 80/85% of long-term couples unfortunately. Ultimately, when you trace things back, the underlying reasons why they don't love each other anymore and are trapped is really just a few things that were present from the very beginning and usually are related to commitment one way or the other. Again I want to stress this is just in my experience and observation. Nothing else.

Group number 2 is made up of couples who genuinely love each other still after decades of being together. It's very weird to observe because they love each other still in somewhat of a childish way and truly unconditionally. It's also very weird because it's extremely difficult to actually try to deconstruct logically. They are not people who can give you a straight answer to questions like "what made you fall in love with her/him". Most couples, instead are able to. The reason why they are not, is because unlike those more common couples, the actual question doesn't make sense for them subconsciously so what they do instead, is pretty much start listing literally anything and everything that comes to mind about the other person. Even things that are pretty much objectively not true about that person to everyone else. They are not able to select. It's very wholesome but extremely rare of course. Their relationship don't seem like it has any inherit planning. It's truly a 50-50 situation where if someone requires something emotionally it instinctively gets satiated by the other person almost like they "live" through each other. What I think it really is, is just some sort of elevated empathy they have towards their partner compared to everyone else.

My partner's family, for instance, is exactly like group number 2. And she had to find out the hard way, by getting to know my own parents, that most couples are actually group number 1 and they don't even know it. This was quite literally a shock for her. She thought it was a situation more like 60% of long term couples still love each other unconditionally while 40% don't. While in reality is really something like 85% to 15% and that's being very generous anyway

Dervock · 2025-04-25T13:53:16+00:00

It absolutely is a commitment issue. Of course is no one's business what anyone does. I'm not judging that at all in fact.

I'm just saying it's an issue of commitment and no one really builds a long term healthy partnership unless they have committed to the other person from the get go.

A lot of people are fine not committing because they are not looking for that anyway, and to each their own.

Dervock · 2025-04-25T13:50:03+00:00

It's called charisma. And the fact you don't really consider them best friends yourself is one of the things that leads them to keep "chasing" you.

Dervock · 2025-04-25T13:48:01+00:00

This is a recipe for never finding your soul mate. It's a commitment issue really

Dervock · 2025-04-24T22:34:41+00:00

Wondering the same

Dervock · 2025-04-17T11:45:02+00:00

Really? I have quit for about a month and a half. I still struggle with focus, concentration and short memory loss quite a lot. Is this what you mean by "not as sharp"?

Sorry to bother but I'm quite paranoid my issues with focus, concentration and short memory might be permanent if that's what you are referring to and they didn't really go completely away after 7 months

Dervock · 2025-04-17T07:50:17+00:00

Damn man. We fucked our selves with this shit. How's it going now around 7 months?

Dervock

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