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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.

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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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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Veritasium, a popular science channel on YouTube, released a video just a few days ago explaining what IQ is and how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKPsLxgpuY

IQ is not properly measured from a random website. If someone announced they have a 200 IQ because of some scam site, that doesn't mean actual IQ tests are invalid. The problem is with that website, and the gullible test-taker.

Every time I've heard someone say IQ tests are meaningless, 100% of the time they admit they've never heard of Spearman or the G factor, which would have been covered in a relevant Psychology course at university.

It's not everything in life, but IQ is real, measurable, and has value in predicting how well someone will do with various challenges in the future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 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.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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