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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by breakyerself on Sunday August 17, 2025 @10:29AM (#44931825)
No the whole book is controversial. It's a political argument for dismantling the welfare state disguised as a review of science. They laundered a bunch of work by racial eugenicists along with a bunch of other junk science methodology.

https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo?si=bzVMwGU4XjPrk4sr

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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by nialse on Sunday August 17, 2025 @02:26PM (#44933735)
I hear you are invested in this line of thought, and that is okay. I just don’t agree with the analysis, and not with the labeling.
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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by breakyerself on Sunday August 17, 2025 @04:01PM (#44934465)
It doesn't rely on work by Eugenicists?
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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by nialse on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:39AM (#44940480)
Fortunately, science does not rely on the character of its purveyors but on the quality of the evidence.
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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by breakyerself on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:00PM (#44947485)
The quality of the evidence wasn't any better than the character of the purveyors. You're an apologist for bullshit.
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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by machomaster on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:02PM (#44935706)
Calling something "controversial" is a total non-argument. The book's science about IQ is solid.

In actuality, the content of the book was simply a collection of mainstream scientific consensus ideas at that time, without specific controversial add-ons. It's only after the book was published, the book unexpectedly was attacked by proto-woke people.

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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by breakyerself on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:02PM (#44947494)
Yeah Nazi aligned eugenicist science is totally mainstream.
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Re:IQ Tests Results for AI by machomaster on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:38PM (#44965531)
Inventing strawman out of thin air in order to drown discussion, to attack individuals and paint them evil, that's literally what Nazis did. How ironic.
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