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Bill Kerr
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Bill Kerr's personal blog at billkerr2.blogspot.com covers philosophy and science. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Bill Kerr: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points" explained”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Bill Kerr's blog for posts quoting Alan Kay on points of view versus IQ, Dennett's classification of creatures, and vendettas versus rule of law. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
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Human Intelligence
Most-linked posts?
- Bill Kerr: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points" explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-24
What Hacker News says?
Alan Kay has noted that vendettas are a human universal [1]: they arises naturally in any human society everywhere on the globe and in history. Rule of law is not a human universal, it requires conscious effort and continuous maintenance. I'm increasingly afraid that the relatively long period of peace in the West have lulled this generation to forget that war, not peace is the natural state of the world. [1] http:/…
Comment linking /2008/08/what-alan-kay-said-about-universals-non.html
on “US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days”Submitted Bill Kerr: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points" explained as a story · 16 points
HN discussionHere's one kind of classification: http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/07/dennetts-creatures.htm...
Comment linking /2006/07/dennetts-creatures.html
on “Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus”I like Alan Kay's saying that "a point of view is worth 80 IQ points" ( http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/12/point-of-view-is-worth... ). In the end I don't think that it's either mostly about intelligence or mostly about the system but a balance, where good system will multiply the effectiveness of intelligent people. We can find examples of few intelligent people in the right place creating astonishing breakthrou…
Comment linking /2006/12/point-of-view-is-worth-80-iq-points.html
on “Are smart people overrated?”