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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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IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

My dad is a smart guy so he applied to join Mensa in the 80s. Incidentally he was also an amateur soccer player at the time. Anyway he did the first test which was free and passed it. There was a second test which you did have to pay for but it wasn't that expensive so he did it and passed. But then there was a third test you also had to pay for....so he didn't join. Gave him a good story.

On the rational wiki page for Mensa it says that the founder of the organization left when it was quite young, commenting that conversations between self-validated smart people quickly devolved into "mental masturbation"....