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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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LessWrong: video games > IQ tests (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Video games also have potential legal advantages over IQ tests for companies. You could argue that "we only hire people good at video games to get people who fit our corporate culture of liking video games" but that argument doesn't work as well for IQ tests.

yet again an original post title that self-sneers

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

and likelihood of being convicted for a crime.

do you think there are any confounding factors there

EDIT: actually, forget it, you've been deleting and reposting to try to promote this stuff, bye now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

aw fuck, my baby’s first post defending iq got d-d-d-downvotes! the only high iq move here is to delete and repost it and then post a pop science youtube video that supports my point. that’ll show em who the real @mind in the room is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@dgerard @sneerclub IQ is a metric for how sneaky people are.

[+] mind -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mind @dgerard

IQ tests assume that there is a general intelligence that they're measuring. That has never been found and if it _had_ then it would be compulsory learning at school.

IQ tests are pretty good for measuring low attainment and problems, that's what they were designed for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you know what, I'll bite

"just for kicks" I've run IQ tests at various times in my life, in various states of being (stressed, sick, tired, etc)

the variance I got on the outputs have been up to 40 points wide across many cases.

objective measure it is not.

proxy indicator, very much so.

the shit does not measure what you think it does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@froztbyte @sneerclub Data point: at one time as a kid it occurred to a school counselor that maybe my grades were evidence that my supposed “potential” based on an earlier IQ test was wrong & that a new more modern version of the Stanford-Binet would reveal my imbecility. The 2nd test came out 60+ points higher than the 1st. That couldn't be correct, so I ended up taking 2 more tests, both with scores in between but substantially different.
Sure, IQ is real.