• Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    10 months ago

    Paraphrasing from the comments ‘sure IQ values are bad, but they are the best measures of IQ we have’ Oof. That is pulling an battle winning argument that will lose you the entire war if you think about it.

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      10 months ago

      It’s also, probably wrong. Modern views of intelligence (see Multiple realizability of cognition and Multi-level competency collective intelligence and Free Energy Principle models) suggest you are better of measuring intelligence by measuring it’s metabolism or through perturbation and interactions.

      Which isn’t reductive enough for these people.