IQ Matters, Pewdiepie's Engineering Arc, Wild Boar Baseball Gloves, and More

On Dating

It is hard to know what we want from a partner. Consider framing it this way: what kind of person do you want to be the mother of your children? For me, this single question significantly helps separate the wheat from the chaff.

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IQ Matters More Than We Think
Tyler Cowen x Jordan Peterson Podcast

This idea that IQ matters way more than we are even willing to talk about is interesting and worth considering. If you find this excerpt below interesting, you might also find this video interesting: Jordan Peterson - IQ and The Job Market.

PETERSON: I don’t think that people want to understand the rule of raw general cognitive ability because it’s such a determining factor, and it’s hard for people on the right and the left to accept it. People on the right think there’s a job for everyone if they just get off their lazy ass and do it, and people on the left think anybody can be trained to do anything.

Both of those things are seriously wrong. One example that I often use is that the American military decided a couple of decades ago that it was illegal to induct anybody into the armed forces who had an IQ of less than 83. That’s an unbelievably important thing to know because that’s about 10 percent of the population.

You’ve got to understand what this means. It means that a very large organization that’s desperately hungry for manpower, especially under circumstances of extreme crisis, is unwilling to accept 10 percent of the population because they have determined — after 100 years of doing absolutely everything they possibly could to the contrary — that there isn’t a single thing that they can train someone like that to do that’s not counterproductive. Right.

That’s terrible. It’s terrible. Because if the armed forces is approximately as complex as general society is — which I think is a reasonable supposition — it means that 10 percent of the population cannot find meaningful, productive, and engaging work in a modern society. And that proportion is probably, although not inevitably, expanding. That’s a huge problem. That’s a huge underclass problem.

Pewdiepie's Engineering Arc?
I installed Linux (so should you)

Remember Pewdiepie? Yeah so apparently he has been on a crazy engineering arc, and I'm all for it lol. He has about six videos on this which I'll list here chronologically for your convenience (don't pay attention to the click baity titles – the videos are actually good):

Wild Boar Baseball Gloves
The Wild Boar 11.5” Infield Glove

It is a known problem that wild boar are an extremely invasive species especially in the south. Maybe if these gloves catch on, it would help lol. Kind of interesting.

2026-04-19