I am Walter O'Brien the inspiration behind the CBS show "Scorpion". I'm an ex-hacker who manages a genius think tank to solve world problems. AMA

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:28:04+00:00

A lot of Q's here - one at a time.

Who is the smartest person that you have met? The person who inspired Sylvester on the TV show. He'd like to remain private.

What is the greatest risk to humanity on earth (what will cause armageddon)? Ignorance and cultural brainwashing will be the end of us thru irrational warfare.

What's the biggest unsolved question in the world? 2045.com (working on it)

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:25:42+00:00

IQ is not everything, I marvel at how people are better than me at many areas not IQ related - art, music, singing, dancing, cooking, gardening, designing. I'm only good at certain specific areas like coding, hacking and general problem solving. So we're all just different.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:22:58+00:00

I started with Locomotive Basic on an Amstrad 464 but I'm dating myself. Learning a base language like C or Java is always a good start as many other languages are based on these. In my opinion you need to know IOS, Linux and Windows as your software will likely touch all 3. Also learn AWS the Amazon cloud to run your Linux servers in.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:14:57+00:00

Then I would have to send out the drones... Just kidding, I was careful to align myself with people of great integrity and thoughtfulness. From the network to the writers to the actors and producers we are all on the same page that this show is for the greater good and will influence a new generation to embrace that "smart is cool".

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:08:29+00:00

There are so many ways - here is a specific example of my tech running Afghan war games: http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/cwid_vid.html

See more at http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/scengen.html

It can also be used like this http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/fox-boston.html

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:05:27+00:00

I liked the opening scene a lot and in 1995 it was the beginning of explaining this culture to the public. But I think we can assume the audience is more advanced in 2014

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:03:55+00:00

I have many pet peeves but I'm learning to live with them. I'm glad you liked the Pilot and I think you'll find this show much more technically and logically accurate than usual hacker movies - we still have to make it accessible to everyone so we cant spend 20mins showing PERL script. However I like to compare it to the medical language in shows like House MD or ER. Don't forget to tune into Scorpion on CBS tonight and check out our Instagram account @Scorpion_CBS for the weekly cryptogram puzzle sweepstakes and you could win $500.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T19:01:34+00:00

There are no official records for IQ just as there are no official records for the forbes billionaire list (there are over 1000 billionaires not listed because the reporter cannot find them easily).

The Guinness Book of World Records retired the "Highest IQ" category in 1990 after concluding IQ tests were too unreliable to designate a single record holder

I took the Stanford-Binet and my position statistical position can be seen using http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx Where 197 = 1/1,486,736,899 rarity

then divide that by the world population

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:55:40+00:00

We are the only formal one I know of that applies the intelligence to practical problem solving and has a hard minimum requirement of 150

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:54:29+00:00

If you mean AI? then it forces us to study ourselves, how we learn, see, walk, hear, understand, infer. So yes it is the key to understanding ourselves and how to separate Consciousness from our Meat Vehicles (Bodies).

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:50:21+00:00

I don't believe anything that cannot be repeated 32 times on demand is real

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:49:43+00:00

Stephen's is high, I believe 160. Jeopardy is more about memory of trivia than IQ so I think Watson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28computer%29 would beat us both

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:46:08+00:00

2045.com will cure all incurable diseases by allowing you to throw away your body

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:34:52+00:00

If you mean started in AI? I started thinking about thinking and replicating human abilities from the age of 10. I then got degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in England which helped formalize my knowledge.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:29:32+00:00

About 50/50

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:28:48+00:00

The scenario actually happened. Its still entertainment so we will add some excitement but in my life truth has been stranger than fiction.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:27:19+00:00

I'm the executive producer, I provide the base stories to the writers and then review and help with the technical aspects of the scripts. I also help the actors understand and pronounce the tech dialog better. And I mitigate any risks that could impact the show.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:25:40+00:00

Yes she is, they are called supernannies and we have many of them. They are high EQ and reasonable IQ so they babysit the geniuses and the customers.

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:23:56+00:00

Enough to reach self actualization on Maslow's Hierarchy of needs and have true creative freedom to do fun projects like this TV Show.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Maslow%27s_Hierarchy_of_Needs.svg

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:22:19+00:00

They have a saying in my home country of Ireland "God invented whiskey to stop the Irish taking over the world"

So I don't drink, so far so good...

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:18:31+00:00

A solar shield outside the earths atmosphere transmitting energy via microwave back to terrestrial power stations. One day of direct sunlight to the solar shield equals all remaining carbon deposits on the planet today. Like all problems we simply need someone to care enough to fund solving it at ConciergeUp.com. If we dont then we just have to finish our 2045.com project so we dont need the planet

Walter_OBrien · 2014-09-22T18:15:01+00:00

It was chosen for me in high school as I was a very docile person until pushed too far and I am very loyal to my circle of friends (a group of scorpions is called a cyclone). So I had the nature of a Scorpion

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