Was watching The Legendary Ending of the Lordaeron Campaign when I got the vp9 dropped segment bug. This was just after an ad break that I did not skip. I had not gotten this bug before this point in this video, or while watching the two-hour previous video.
Letting ads play wastes time, but it gives a small amount of money to a creator. gives a small amount of money to a creator, but it wastes time. If there was a government conspiracy, me letting an ad play in a video I'm watching (as opposed to a video open in a second tab, in which I trigger ads by randomly seeking within the video while having the video set to 144p) might suggest that I'm 'nice', and if someone thinks that they're 'mean', they might think there is a potential moral incompatibility, and that if I think they might be interested in me, that they have a moral obligation to find a way to let me know that they differ in moral orientation.
This time, I was not letting the ads play to help the creator. I was getting more food. I have eaten 11 packages (21g each) of cheddar goldfish today, which were obtained for free. This food is bad for the teeth, as it sticks to them, so it's better to eat a lot of them at once than to eat them separated by intervals. So I was not acting in a deceptive way to obtain more information. I have been trying to skip all ads in the past day or two (more rigorously perhaps than in the past when I tried to do this).
But I'm still stalking user Diotima85 on Reddit, and she posted comments on several threads, including this one:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Gifted/comments/1uvwe9b/im_tired/oxj7tn3/
The person she's responding to said they're 150+ IQ. I don't find this a useful indicator, not least because there are two different definitions of IQ even when it's accurately measured. (The second definition, in which the population has a normal distribution, also can be defined with a standard deviation of 15, or one of 20.) But I looked up some conversions for the SAT (test) which is popular in the US:
(just the results from 'covert sat score to iq')
https://cognitivemetrics.com/calculator/sat-iq
https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/satiq.aspx
https://www.reddit.com/r/cognitiveTesting/comments/18xqvd1/a_more_accurate_modern_satiq_conversion_table/
https://www.cogn-iq.org/convert/sat-to-iq/
Bonus: https://www.reddit.com/r/cognitiveTesting/comments/1u3diw8/actually_the_sat_was_necessary_after_all/
In my high school, each grade had 500~800 students, I think. I and one other student in my grade took calculus in 11th grade. (The two of us also studied statistics during lunch breaks in 10th grade and took the AP statistics test, though I don't think the other student did as well as I did on it.) I note that when I went to the COSMOS program at University of California, Irvine, there were many high school students who were on their second or third year of calculus or other advanced maths. Out of other students in my grade, I would say that person X may have been the smartest (I have honestly forgotten his name for certain). Incidentally, I was aware that he had become an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts program. He got between 1400 and 1500 on the SAT.
Out of the students in the COSMOS program whose emails I obtained for later correspondence, I was closest to Johanna. I might have asked or suggested that I was curious what her test scores were like, but she didn't say anything about them.
So, based on what these SAT-to-IQ conversion sites say, the person who made this Reddit thread might be smarter than anyone else in my grade at my high school. (One person, female, in the grade above mine took calculus in 11th grade; I had no knowledge of lower grades.)
I think I might have emailed this to Imane, and possibly to someone else as well. A search of this weblog doesn't turn it up:
'low fertility rates explained, 01 Sep 2024.txt'
To summarize the video and all the comments: birth rates are low in rich countries because in rich countries, people are used to getting what they want: food when they want it, protection from insects and lions, etc. But as people grow older, they realize they don't have everything they want: they don't have a world free of war, or affordable housing costs, or job security. They become reluctant to have children when everything is not to their satisfaction.
You could say we are all spoiled brats. Or you could ask, why don't we have these things we want? Why don't we have a peaceful world? Why were Ukrainian politicians rewarded with reelection for making laws that encouraged conflict with Russia? Why do the EU and US dangle rewards like integration into the EU and NATO in front of Ukraine for fighting with Russia? Why are EU and US voters fine with sending hundreds of billions of tax dollars (in reality debt dollars) to Ukraine?
The solution to the fertility crisis is either to accept that we cannot have what we want, or to make it so we do have what we want. Or we can just not solve it and continue on the demographic path of successful countries disappearing while failed states thrive, as fossil fuels run out and the climate goes crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-PinTQcuik&lc=Ugzl9iYHFn099yUBQ4p4AaABAg
Other comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-PinTQcuik&lc=UgyyVcwTjpGaZEkW7td4AaABAg
A bookmark folder of mine, named '80k hours, etc., 11 Jun 2025'. Contains,
A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
Preventing an AI-related catastrophe - 80,000 Hours
What are the most pressing world problems?
The case for reducing existential risks - 80,000 Hours
How important are future generations? - 80,000 Hours
What is social impact? A definition – 80,000 Hours
Three ways anyone can make a real difference - 80,000 Hours
Tl;dr, they want smart people to contact them.
This bookmark folder is preceded by 'Operation Spider's Web etc., 03 Jun 2025', 'crash' which contains 14 YouTube videos and Till the End of the Moon - Episode 22 : What a Sushi Dreams About, 'YouTube unwatched, 06 Jun 2025' with five videos, and 'unwatched videos, 06 Jun 2025' (mostly the same as 'crash'). It's followed by 'unwatched videos, 14 Jun 2025' (a completely different set of videos, ending with Could Homelander Become An S-Class Hero in One Punch Man? - YouTube), '~20 Jun 2025 temp watching, Rose Queen' (19 videos), 'D&D, 22 Jun 2025' (7 videos), and 'China and Japan, unwatched, 28 Jun 2025', which contains 14 videos:
China Banked EVERYTHING On This - YouTube
This walk with Brit in Guangzhou changed my view of China - YouTube
The China They Won't Show You - YouTube
An American Girl Raised in China: Her Childhood, Culture & Identity - YouTube
Japan's Poverty among Porn Actresses [ENG CC] - YouTube
We’re Sorry, Men! Chinese Leftover Women Regret It — But It’s Too Late | Life in China - YouTube
Chinese leftover women say sorry to men, but it's too late | Life in China - YouTube
Taiwan's Second Batch of M1A2T Tanks Arrives: A Game-Changer in Coastal Defense - YouTube
The Dark Truth Behind Drunk Salarymen in Japan - YouTube
Why is this coastline so straight? - YouTube
EA‑18G Growler Explained: How It Blinds Enemy Defenses - YouTube
The 40-Ton Mortar That Could've Ended WW2 Instead of the Atomic Bomb - YouTube
Why did I end my previous post with the quote about "when benefit to the group is not clear" (before I edited it to add links to Little Apple)?
"Actually, we are fine with the world as it is." Someone could be fine with the world being in one state, while also being fine with it in a different state. The conceit is that one is not failing to do something, which is to change the state of the world.
I think Diotima85's post makes it clear that <redacted>. I would disagree with her other post, which states,
They are the architectural gatekeepers of the cult of mediocrity and wasting 5 hours per day being non-productive and just “trying to look busy”, “socializing”, endless scrolling and taking very long to do tasks that could have been done in 15 minutes, etc.
Middle-level managers might have a bit of an incentive to encourage mediocrity, because they are surrounded by people with easy jobs, they can have an easy job as well. But other people, like CEOs, are given direct financial incentives to punish inefficiency. Their job is to fight against any tendency for lower tiers of management to tolerate inefficiency. As with any conflict, it can lead to unwanted harm to people who don't deserve it, i.e. stupid rules.
I had to stop watching the drama 'My Dearest Nemesis' because only the first two episodes were free, but the female lead in it is a boss who shows no signs of tolerating inefficiency.
What's it going to be, then, eh?
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