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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by AuryGlenz on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:13PM (#47372953)
Does it now? Noah Carl would disagree. He was a researcher at Cambridge University that was dismissed after an open letter signed by over 1,400 academics and students accusing him of "racist pseudoscience" for merely arguing that race-IQ research should not be off-limits.

James Flynn (of the Flynn effect) has also publicly stated that grants for research clarifying genetic vs. environmental causes of IQ gaps weren't approved because of university fears of public furor.

Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by tptacek on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:29PM (#47373045)
You're trying to axiomatically win an argument that is already settled empirically. It won't work. You can just read the papers. My point being: the papers exist, and more are published every year. Once you acknowledge that, your argument is dead. Literally no matter what the papers say. Don't make dumb arguments.

Noah Carl has a sociology doctorate. He doesn't work in the fields that study this; he just tries to launder his way into them.

Flynn is, famously, a race/IQ skeptic.

Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by akerl_ on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:21PM (#47372996)
https://medium.com/@racescienceopenletter/open-letter-no-to-...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/01/cambridge-...

> for merely arguing that race-IQ research should not be off-limits.

Help me connect the dots here.