What is Intelligence

This book is all about improving your working memory for stupid things like numbers, cards and names.
But if you are smart you can use the principle visual analogies of this book to improve your working memory in pretty much any intellectual area.

By the way, this other thread is basically about this guys attempt to improve his working memory for stupid things.

There are three types of intelligence: Intuitive, Industrial, and Intellectual.

Western society often worships the "Intellectual" species as being the "true" geniuses, while taking for granted the Industrialists and Intuitivists.

It seems to me that since the late 2000s/early 2010s, the West has been caught in a "brain training" craze. Brain games, puzzles, brain foods, etc. On YouTube, you have videos of people doing trivia questions/riddles, mostly of pop culture from 20+ years ago.
YouTube channels such as "Fine Bros" with their "Kids React" video series has brought out the subconscious arrogance of its audience. Anytime a child/teen gets a trivia question wrong, people flip the fuck out. It seems nowadays, thanks to the Internet, it's expected for adolescents to "know everything". People take for granted that there's so much info out there, that theres always a riddle that will stump you.

On a side note,
Industrial: the ability to troubleshoot a car, build a bike from a metal scrap, grow your own food, et.

Intuitive: The ability to read people's emotions or actions.

Intellectual: Read science books and write down complex formulas.

Unfortunately, society thinks that book smarts automatically make you prepaed for life. This is why adolescence is pushed to 26, because parents feel that kids don't need to learn how to cook, drive, build/fix things because "kids are too clumsy/immature so the state will raise them for me."

Working memory is no more a measure of intelligence than it is for your computer.

Actually meaningful is the processing power, architecture of your processing, and the software.

Imagine if you had infinite memory, infinite processing power, but no software- zero intelligence whatsoever.

This thread is either good or bad depending on interpretation. If OP is just boiling down intelligence per se to a retarded degree that's bad but if he's arguing against IQ being the sole factor for the mystical "true" intelligence then it's okay imo. Intelligence first of all requires some live experience with existence, the logistics of which can fairly accurately be modeled metaphorically as software and hardware and simply put, good hardware is nothing without proper software as well as optimization etc. Being able to score high on most tests demonstrates a high level of aptitude but not necessarily a creative brilliance.

But really he's still just a brainlet

Age can be independent of intelligence. there are elementary schoolers who an leave an entire high school class biting dust. Speaking of which: Did you know that "grade years" were a German invention. It was adopted in the US in the 1860s. Before then, children of all ages were taught the same difficulty of academics. You had ten-year olds who can recite Shakespeare and fourteen year-olds who ouldn't even write their first names.

t. RAMlet