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Re:Is there a general factor of intelligence? by deltarholamda on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:33PM (#30804187)
Like I said, it upsets people, and since we value not upsetting people, that's the metric we optimize for. This has costs and consequences, like anything else.

It's the social sciences version of technical debt.

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Re:Is there a general factor of intelligence? by runarberg on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:06PM (#30807057)
> I'm not a genderqueer left-handed ginger aboriginal, so I'm not very smart.

> we value not upsetting people, that's the metric we optimize for.

From the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

I’m a prime target for this flamebate, and you’ve managed to upset me quite a bit. I’m actually surprised I didn’t bite already. Indeed I’ll actually just leave it at that and pat my self on the back for resisting.

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Re:Is there a general factor of intelligence? by amanaplanacanal on Saturday March 26, 2022 @07:02AM (#30810804)
It intentionally upsets people without actually adding to your argument. That sounds like trolling to me, which is not what we are going for here.
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