Mentifex is an unskilled spammer who wrote a random string generator in forth on a TRS-80 in 1982.
In 1978 the older brother of Mentipoo bought a Tandy-RadioShack TRS-80 with Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC from Dartmouth) and with a cassette tape-drive, so Mentaflux started coding on it. Then in 1983 Mindmaker-fex bought a Coleco ADAM Z80-based computer also with a built-in tape drive and with later a 300-baud modem on which Mentifmaker joined local Bulletin-Board Systems (BBS) and began propagating the Memes of Mentifex.
And what does the IQ test measure? It is clear that IQ tests do not measure intelligence, simply because the term "intelligence" is not clearly defined even today. However, there are different IQ tests and Gauss distributions from those that passed them. These tests are designed by psychologists and psychiatrists on the basis of their own questionable considerations. I think the correct answer would be that the IQ test measures how well the subjects correspond to the imaginary mental standard of the test-designer, or rather, whether test subjects want to play this game and whether they understands the rules. Just that. The same Raven's Progressive Matrices can be recognized and solved by a computer program in a split second. Does this mean that a primitive program has a higher intelligence than its creator? Some argue that “intelligence is the ability to solve problems”, but say haloperidol also solves problems, because haloperidol is so smart that it knows the approach to every crazy person.
The funny thing is that many schizophrenics, like the Unabomber, have a very high IQ, i.e. it turns out that they are superNORMal in their delirium. On the other hand, many psychologists and psychiatrists go to psychiatry under the influence of their own mental problems, and therefore the IQ tests they design show rather the degree of insanity of their test subjects. The most striking example is the MMPI test, where if you answer that you suffer from abdominal pain, then you will be diagnosed with "hypochondriasis schizophrenia" and will be prescribed antipsychotics, even if you really have a stomach ulcer, and from neuroleptics it will turn into a perforative form that entails death. Psychiatrists are not interested in your real problems. And if you die in the course of treatment, it will be written off for natural causes.
Accusing someone of being ill is a form of an abusive relationship, but in the case of psychiatry specifically, it can be used to convince someone that they need expensive treatment, such as pills or therapy. It's also easy for someone whose views are mainstream to accuse anyone who thinks differently of being crazy. Aside from obvious problems like seeing or hearing things that aren't there, a lot of "mental illness" is just thinking differently about the world. I don't always like how the "diversity" word is misused, but neurodiversity isn't always a bad thing, even though there is a stigma with people who think differently. Of course, what's ironic about the word "neurodiversity" is that it's often used by leftists who have extremely mainstream beliefs, which is anything but neurodiverse.
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Anonymous2018-10-07 10:35
>>19 Yet Mentifex is an obvious schizo, despite no visual or hearing illusions. I doubt even American medicine knows a cure for Mentifex, besides administering lobotomy or euthanasia.
>>22 He should actually try to learn about type theory instead of shitposting.
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Anonymous2018-10-07 15:46
>>23 it's a return value, it's like a long numeric type, combined with void, so a lot of nothing, hehe
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Anonymous2018-10-08 6:30
your heart is now beating manually, your penis is now beating manually, your ceo is now meeting annually; your life is falling apart; your wife is dating bart; but at the end of it all you still own a cart and when that bullet goes through your heart you realize the one thing that set you apart... the fact that your other car was a cdr.