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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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Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

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[–] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smart people talk about ideas or hobbies or whatever it is they're focused on.

Dumb people talk about their IQ and how it means whatever half baked conclusions they decide to jump to.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who the heck knows their iq. don't you have to go out of your way to take that test?

[–] IncognitoErgoCvm@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Comparison between attention-sensitive and attention-insensitive IQ tests are considered diagnostic for ADHD.

I know mine. I took an IQ test in my early 20s and got a high score on it. Didn't mean a whole lot for me, I had already dropped out of highschool, then I drunked out of college and wound up fixing trash trucks for 10 years.