Ask A Genius 887: STUMPME
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/02/04
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, STUMPME. Gmail is trytostumpme@gmail.com
This is from the feedback for www.rickrosner.org
“Hey Rick, it’s been a few years…
[Editorial note: I don’t know who the hell this person is.]
“I’m not sure if you’re still doing high IQ stuff, but I’d like to discuss profit sharing for monetized content. Can you share your time or previous test answers you submitted? For context, I run a YouTube channel called Try to Stump Me, where I solve the world’s highest IQ problems for the viewers. I need to focus on the Hoeflin series initially to gain traction, and yes, it’s just starting. I will act differently from others like you, but given enough time, I can solve the majority of problems correctly. I’d like to reduce the time commitment and share or purchase your time to use as content. Thanks, man; let me know your thoughts. I’ll make it worth your time.”
Rick Rosner: Well, I’m not necessarily a super-fast problem solver, but I agree with STUMPME that if you spend enough time on a problem and you have decent analytical skills, you can solve a lot of problems, that’s assuming that super complex IQ problem is solvable. The Hoeflin problems all have clear solutions. However, his most difficult problem has a clear solution, which has never been proven the correct answer: The three interpenetrating cubes problem. The people who’ve solved it have a hard time imagining any other solution that could beat the number; it’s a maximization problem.
I have so much work I’m supposed to do on my. For years, I’ve limited the amount of reading I do at home; I’ve limited the number of books I’ve brought into my house because I can’t spend that much time reading. After all, it takes time away from the stuff I should be doing, and this sounds like one more thing where I shouldn’t spend time doing it because it takes away from what I think I should be doing. Also, I mentioned IQ problems that are solvable; some IQ problems achieve a super genius level of difficulty by requiring the solver to come up with a string of inferences, but it’s not just one complex problem; it’s a series of tricky issues that all have to be solved to get to the solution. If there’s any ambiguity or uncertainty, and there always is at each step of getting to the solution, by the time you get to a possible solution, the compounded uncertainty means that you’re not sure whether the probability that you’ve gotten to the correct answer is pretty low like Watson; IBM’s primitive AI question answering engine who competed on Jeopardy would probabilistically analyze the clues within a question and would only ring in if Watson had an 85% probability of getting the question right, according to Watson’s Bayesian probabilistic calculations.
That’s all AI is; it’s a series of probabilistic calculations about what things mean based on big data sets. AI doesn’t understand anything; AI is just doing like Bayesian logic on Bayesian analysis on massive data sets, with data sets of billions of examples to the point where Bayesian analysis looks like understanding. Anyway, there are a lot of super complex IQ problems because they’re stacked, puzzles on top of each other; there’s no way to arrive at a definitive answer because so much ambiguity creeps in, which makes such items super frustrating and super time-consuming. So, that’s not something I want to wade back into, especially with my limited time; I’m 63 and a half, and I should not take any more IQ tests with the clock ticking on me.
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