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It occurs to me that if someone makes a wrong statement, that is negative intelligence, or intelligence multiplied by (-1).
If
an ant identifies a breadcrumb as a food source and communicates this
fact to the rest of the ant nest, many ants will be convinced to travel
to the breadcrumb location, and it will be brought back to the nest as
a food source. The ant that discovered the breadcrumb had
stumbled upon a piece of positive "intelligence", and successfully
communicated that positive intelligence to the other ants, the
intelligence was acted upon, and so therefore, you might congratulate
that first ant as demonstrating some small degree of
"intelligence". You might even assign a positive number as
an "I.Q." for this ant, who acquired and successfully communicated
intelligence that turned out to be correct.
However, if the ant
wandered about aimlessly, never finding any food, and came back to the
nest with no info, that would be an example of a LACK of intelligence -
we might assign an I/Q/ value of zero (0) to the ant that wandered but
never found any food.
On the third hand, imagine an ant
stumbling across a colorful pebble. For whatever reason, the ant
becomes convinced that the pebble is actually food, and communicates
that wrong "fact" to the rest of the nest. The fellow ants
obligingly follow the first ant to the pebble, whereupon they are sorry
to inform the first ant that they have all wasted their time and
energy, and that the pebble is inedible.
A fourth case might be
that "a majority consensus" of the ants believed that the pebble WAS
food, and they all wasted even MORE time and energy bringing it back to
the nest. Later they realized it was not food, and wasted still
more time and energy disposing of it. That is intelligence
multiplied by a NEGATIVE number. I submit that this type off
behavior characterizes a NEGATIVE I.Q.
I propose that
"scientists" squandering the name of science to advertise something a
as a "FACT", that later turns out to NOT be a fact, can be accurately
characterized as having a NEGATIVE I.Q.
If "global warming"
turns out to NOT happen in the coming decades, then congratulations to
all the "scientists" who contributed negative intelligence to the
knowledge base of humanity. In the event that the planet
continues cooling or even stops warming, you should be duly rewarded
with the label of a "Negative I.Q." Congratulations on wasting the
energy of the nest, on a useless pebble.
If you say a certain
type of turbine is good, and it in fact sucks, well, you just don't
know the facts. What you have contributed is a NEGATIVE
intelligence, and congratulations, you exhibit a NEGATIVE I.Q.
If
you are a well-funded team that declared you would have a 10 KW
airborne wind turbine on the market "within 2 years", and after 2 years
passes you are no closer than you were 2 years ago, that original
statement turned out to be NEGATIVE intelligence. Enough
instances of negative intelligence indicates a NEGATIVE I.Q.
We
can safely say that most statements made by most AWE teams have been
inaccurate, and that none except Pacific has even made an attempt to
say they have a product available. So I'd have to say the field
is rife with NEGATIVE intelligence, and overall, if I had to assign an
I.Q to the totality of the teams, it would be a negative number.
Another
example of "NEGATIVE INTELLIGENCE" is the old idea that stomach ulcers
are caused by "stress". Since the inception of antibiotics,
millions of doctors combined, failed to notice that ulcer patients that
happened to have been placed on antibiotics were cured of their
ulcers. Only after billions of dollars spent on Tagamet and
unnecessary surgeries did ONE doctor figure out that ulcers were
bacterial infections, (Heliobacter Pylori) and that the best treatment
was simply a regimen of antibiotics.
I submit that all the
doctors before the one that discovered the bacterial aspect contributed
either zero intelligence, or passed along NEGATIVE intelligence.
The fact that millions of doctors did not notice what ulcers even WERE
(bacterial infections), over that many years, while prescribing
inappropriate treatments including even SURGERY indicates to me that,
sadly, humanity is capable of acting with ZERO iintelligence,
exhibiting a ZERO I.Q. or even a NEGATIVE I.Q., for decades on end,
with millions of people participating. All these participants
would insist that they have "intelligence" but I say the evidence says
otherwise. I say, for that many years, that many doctors,
combined, exhibited ZERO inteoligence and in fact contributed NEGATIVE
INTELLIGENCE. One might also just call it "stupidity".
Like
the old saying from the bathroom wall "eat shit, 1,000,000 flies can't
be wrong", 1,000,000 doctors were EXACTLY AS ACCURATE AS THE MILLION
FLIES in saying "Your ulcer is cause by stress". Well,except from
a fly's viewpoint, the flies were actually correct, (good for them)
whereas the doctors were completely wrong the whole time. So the
doctors were not as smart as flies.
I submit that these doctors
gave the rest of the nest "NEGATIVE INTELLIGENCE", and that they should
be rewarded with the label of having a NEGATIVE I.Q.
If Moller
says he is about a year away from offering a flying car, for 30 years
straight, congratulations Paul, that was negative intelligence, and you
have a negative I.Q.
If someone developing a wind turbine disregards the known wisdom of the art and says:
1)We need to target LOW WIND SPEEDS! (with optimal windspeed-targeting an old art)
2) We need to use a HIGH SOLIDITY ROTOR (with proper rotor solidity very old and well-understood knowledge)
3) We will use CLOTH BLADES (when such had been overcome a thousand years before)
4) We will place the generator at the blade tips ( when good generator sizing and location was a well-developed in the art)
5)
We will mount it a couple feet high above a roof (when more height
above objects for small turbines is a well-known requirement)
The
people who developed this turbine exhibited a NEGATIVE I.Q., not only
disregarding known positive intelligence, but in fact repeating known
examples of negative intelligence, and restating them as "positive
intelligence" - to combine so many known bad ideas and promote the
combination as a good idea is to have contributed NEGATIVE INTELLIGENCE
to the field of wind energy.
Further members of the nest
are then enticed into repeating the NEGATIVE INTELLIGENCE, repeating
the bad information that the Honeywell turbine has merit. And so
it is with bad information - it gets repeated, and given enough wrong
information, any effort, or any society, might be accurately assigned a
"Negative I.Q.".
When an Aerospace company shows up at an AWE
conference and shows us renderings of a stealth airplane that is
supposed to be a contribution toward AWE, then that company drops the
ball and does nothing, probably because their design was a big joke in
the first place, they have demonstrated a NEGATIVE I.Q.
When
Professor Crackpot declares that "whale bumps" will increase output of
windfarms by 20%, this is another example of negative intelligence.
When
a company gives a date and a KW rating for a product that does not in
fact emerge, once again, we can only assign them a NEGATIVE I.Q.
On balance, I'd have to say this field, overall, can only be cumulatively rated with a NEGATIVE I.Q.
Have a day!
:)
Doug Selsam |
