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Name: Anonymous 2011-05-27 15:45

I scored high enough on an official IQ test (as in, from a clinical psychologist who tested me professionally in person, not some illegitimate online test) to get accepted into Mensa. Should I do it? Some people love it, others claim that it's just a bunch of pretentious cunts playing board games and bragging about how smart they are. What do you think? What have your experiences in Mensa been like?

Being smart autists, I figure that at least some of you might know what Mensa is like. I would appreciate any and all serious insight.

Name: Anonymous 2011-05-28 20:12

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Lisp is dead, even among AI researchers. In fact, it could be said that Lisp was solely responsible for the high expectations that never materialized during the Era of Great Expectations in the 50s and 60s, and ending with The Great AI Winter. And that has to do with the fact the Lisp community is highly fractured.

OpenCog is written in C/C++ and OpenCL, and while these language choices are perhaps not as a "productive" as a functional languages in the short term, offer far more potential for heterogeneous computing and low-level close-to-the-metal performance tuning, while still offering suitable third-party abstractions for concurrency and parallelism, and having the most mature compiler tool chains on the planet out of any language.

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