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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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LessWrong: video games > IQ tests (www.lesswrong.com)
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Video games also have potential legal advantages over IQ tests for companies. You could argue that "we only hire people good at video games to get people who fit our corporate culture of liking video games" but that argument doesn't work as well for IQ tests.

yet again an original post title that self-sneers

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[–] Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mind @dgerard

This was debunked over 40 years ago.

What is the reason for the pernicious resilience of the IQ myth?

Spearman was never able to find a g. It's always shown to be a statistical artefact.

*smh* and then the fallacious comparison to climate change.

IQ tests, in common with most "race science", doesn't produce good results.

Climate change constantly does.

You're more like Room Temperature superconductors. (Which may even be becoming real! As opposed to IQ.)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the reason for the pernicious resilience of the IQ myth?

starts with "r" (and ends "acists")

[–] Homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@dgerard

Timnit Gebru demonstrates that AI is the intellectual heir of IQ tests which spring from the eugenics movement. If only I was a fraction as smart.

https://youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Timnit is amazing! this is going on my “watch today when work isn’t actively destroying my mind” list