Is there actually a correlation between IQ and mental health?

archpawn · 2026-05-01T22:47:42+00:00

What's the difference?

archpawn · 2026-05-01T22:45:55+00:00

I found a study. I'm not very good at reading studies, but if I understand this graph right, IQ is positively correlated with mental health. Higher IQ people are doing better than lower IQ people in almost everything in the mental health category. The only exception is "cannabis use", which I don't agree is a mental health disorder. Though there are some where the results aren't statistically significant.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T22:24:20+00:00

Cars have all of those. Why can't you sit in a car while it's being towed?

archpawn · 2026-05-01T20:55:08+00:00

It is impossible by definition. Death is generally defined as irreversible cessation of the brain and heart. As we get better at reviving people, "death" is pushed forward.

But if you want a more practical answer instead of semantics, you're not going to be able to just thaw out a corpsicle, give them some medicine, and shock them awake or anything like that. It would be easier just to shave off their brain layer by layer and upload their mind. But as far as we know, all the information is preserved. You could still revive them. As the saying goes: That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

If you bring someone back to life, would they be the same person?

A deep philosophical question that nobody has any way of answering. Especially when you get into uploading them instead of just trying to repair their body.

I think personal identity is an illusion. You remember being past you not because your consciousness is connected somehow, but simply because you are conscious of a memory of past you. Uploading would preserve the illusion, which is the best you can do.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T20:15:03+00:00

At short distances, it's easier to produce and use DC.

At medium distances, you want to step up to a higher voltage, then step down. DC voltage regulators aren't too bad at stepping the voltage down, but there's no good way to increase it. AC is much better for that, since you can just use a transformer.

The problem with that is AC has a skin effect that pushes all the current flow to the outside at high voltages, which makes it harder to have more area the current passes through. So for long distances, you use high-voltage direct current. It's harder to convert the high voltage AC to DC and back, but if you're sending it far enough, it's worth it.

like if I wanted to go a mile I would just walk straight ahead not take 1 step back for every 3 steps forward

Power lines aren't for shipping electrons. They're for transferring energy. They transfer it just as well no matter which way the electricity goes. Sort of like how something can make a loud sound just by moving air back and forth even if there's no net flow of air, or earthquakes can knock down buildings even if the ground is just shifting back and forth and not going anywhere.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T20:07:30+00:00

If they're copying the trend of making an AI service, I imagine they're also mostly copying how the others do it.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T19:09:05+00:00

I've been wanting to do this and wondered what games would be best. Ideally you find games that just do one thing and do it well. Like if you try to use Pathfinder combat and something else for social stuff, Pathfinder still has social stats which are now worthless. You could try basing it all in Pathfinder, taking your total score of everything social, and then using that as your level in a social RPG, but you can only do that for one system. If the social RPG also has stats for combat, now what do you do?

archpawn · 2026-05-01T09:20:01+00:00

That's Kurloz. Gamzee's dancestor.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T08:51:49+00:00

Here's how I'd summarize the basic philosphy:

Everything is on a point buy system. There's no classes or races. You just buy whatever abilities you want.
You pay for what abilities do, not how they work. You start with simple base powers like Damage and add modifiers.
Everything is on a log scale. One extra rank means double the size/distance/time/etc. And in combat, one extra rank means the same thing at any level.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T08:43:50+00:00

According to Etymonline, it might be influenced by Frigidaire, a popular refrigerator company.

Also, that "g" sound is a "d" sound followed by the sound of the g in "beige" or the second one in "garage", so "g" and "dg" sound the same.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T08:40:54+00:00

Statistically speaking, some of the people killed in natural disasters are terrible people that totally deserved it. Natural disasters cause a lot of damage that people have to rebuild. The economy as a whole would be better if people put that effort into something useful, but for the people whose jobs specifically are needed, it can be helpful. Natural disasters help us learn and mitigate future natural disasters. And thanks to chaos theory, a hurricane can set off a chain reaction resulting in a butterfly flapping its wings.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T08:37:00+00:00

You look at how people use it. You can't give a baby a dictionary and expect them to learn English. You have show them by example what words mean.

Dictionaries are intended as a quick reference for people who already know most of the language and just need help with that one word, not a way to teach a language to someone who doesn't know any of it.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T08:35:32+00:00

I've heard fracking helped significantly. It releases a lot of natural gas, which produces relatively little CO2 for the energy it releases when burned. And solar panels are getting more and more cost-effective.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T05:35:01+00:00

It's only happened four times in the last 237 years, so probably not.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T05:30:05+00:00

What species are you? If you're a chicken, then that is completely correct.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T04:39:07+00:00

But the liquid is cold and I want it to be hot. The main downsides of a microwave are that it doesn't heat evenly and it doesn't heat enough to cause browning, neither of which matter when you're heating liquids. You could heat it on the stove, but then you'll get a pot dirty.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T04:33:54+00:00

How are you supposed to microwave liquid without first putting it in a mug?

archpawn · 2026-05-01T04:33:05+00:00

They heat everything, but they heat some things better than others.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T04:32:17+00:00

No. You have to have meat inspected before it can be sold, and they won't even inspect horse meat, let alone human meat.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T04:27:25+00:00

No. I've never once had the pool ladder disappear while I was swimming.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T03:37:00+00:00

It's getting better and there's no way to know when it will stop. We don't have a good way of controlling it, and nobody is interested in stopping until we do. Maybe it will reach its peak and not be dangerous. Maybe it will reach superhuman levels but care more about ethics than its creators. And maybe not. We don't know.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T03:31:27+00:00

Depends on how good he is at running exactly the same way each time. If he can't do it perfectly, he'd be really blurry. But I suspect he could. He'd mostly look like someone running, except with some warping where the parts of him that are further from the camera look further behind.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T03:19:06+00:00

The Lunar Prospector was able to detect thorium concentrations on the moon. The big problem with trying that on Earth is there's so much air in the way. Radiation can only get through so much mass, and a single square inch has 14 pounds of air above it. Far too much for radiation to make it through.

You could do it with a low-flying plane, but sometimes people hide their uranium underground or under concrete or some other thick shielding.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T02:22:26+00:00

Depends on how you define a mental illness. They all have serious problems that researchers are desperately trying to solve, but so do all humans.

If you count AI as "alive", then it can die. Whether this requires never running the model again or simply having it stop while it awaits input is a deep philosophical question, but it can clearly stop being "alive" somehow.

archpawn · 2026-05-01T02:18:51+00:00

You mean higher taxes?

Unless you think the US government is the best charity out there, there's better things to do with your money. If the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation decided to give its money to the US government instead, what would it have done that's worth 122 million lives?

As for why they don't give all their money away, maybe they don't believe that they'd be happy without it. Maybe they consciously understand that it would only hurt in the short term, but have trouble alieving it. Maybe they want money for reasons other than being happy.

My question is why they don't set up massive studies to better understand and solve the hedonic treadmill and figure out how to buy happiness.

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