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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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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you know what, I'll bite

"just for kicks" I've run IQ tests at various times in my life, in various states of being (stressed, sick, tired, etc)

the variance I got on the outputs have been up to 40 points wide across many cases.

objective measure it is not.

proxy indicator, very much so.

the shit does not measure what you think it does.

[–] grumpybozo@toad.social 5 points 1 year ago

@froztbyte @sneerclub Data point: at one time as a kid it occurred to a school counselor that maybe my grades were evidence that my supposed “potential” based on an earlier IQ test was wrong & that a new more modern version of the Stanford-Binet would reveal my imbecility. The 2nd test came out 60+ points higher than the 1st. That couldn't be correct, so I ended up taking 2 more tests, both with scores in between but substantially different.
Sure, IQ is real.