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by jsnell 677 days ago
It's a neat idea, though not what I expected from the title talking about "smart" :)

You might want to replace the single page format with showing just one question at a time, and giving instant feedback on after each answer.

First, it'd be more engaging. Even the small version of the quiz is a bit long for something where you don't know what the payoff will be. Second, you'd get to see the correct answer while still having the context on why you replied the way you did.

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> not what I expected from the title talking about "smart"

I think the title is mainly a reference to the TV show “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?”

Fittingly then, is the fact that a lot of types of questions that they were asking in that TV show was mostly trivia. Which I also don’t think of as being a particularly important characteristic of being “smart”.

When I think of “smart” people, I think of people who can take limited amount of information and connect dots in ways that others can’t. Of course it also builds on knowledge. You need to have specific knowledge in the first place to make connections. But knowing facts like “the battle of so and so happened on August 18th 1924, one hundred years ago today” alone is not “smart”. A smart person is someone who uses knowledge in a surprising way. Or in a way that others would not have been able to. After the smart person made the connection others might also go like “oh that’s so obvious why didn’t I think about that” or even “yeah that’s really obvious, I could’ve thought of that too”. And yet the first person to actually make, and properly communicate that connection was the smart one. Smart exactly because they did.

If you want to practice it one question at at time, you set the question count to 1. https://joel.tools/smarter/?questions=1

When I tested it this way it resulted in less of an emotional reaction.

I retired as worldwide champion (tied) of text prediction.

  you: 0/1
  gpt-4o: 0/1
  gpt-4: 0/1
  gpt-4o-mini: 0/1
  llama-2-7b: 0/1
  llama-3-8b: 0/1
  mistral-7b: 0/1
  unigram: 0/1
Uhm I was just wondering if all models could get a question correct at the same time and except this "you" model all got it correct.

you: 0/1

gpt-4o: 1/1

gpt-4: 1/1

gpt-4o-mini: 1/1

llama-2-7b: 1/1

llama-3-8b: 1/1

mistral-7b: 1/1

unigram: 1/1

I found the you model being exceptionally bad at this. Where can I see how many I got right?
This is fun!

I bet this could be a unique testing resource for aspiring Jeapordy contestants.

Thanks - we've LLMified the title.