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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by jhgb on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:20AM (#28209065)
I think what he meant was that if Tao indeed has an IQ of 230, then on average one seven-billion-people-world out of every 57 million such (random) worlds contains one person as smart as Tao, or, that you need to sample something like 400 quadrillion people to find one such person. So your "122" figure doesn't seem to have any meaning here (at least to me).
Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by OscarCunningham on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:32AM (#28209133)
Yeah, that's what I meant. (Except that the world population is now nearly 8 billion.)
Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by jhgb on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:38AM (#28209176)
Sometimes the population of the world seems like the price of Bitcoin to me. Wasn't is 7 billion just yesterday?
Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by andi999 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:08AM (#28210021)
Yes, don't worry it will probably level at 11 billion
Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by CRConrad on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:05AM (#28209983)
No, that was this morning. Yesterday it was six, and the other day four.