• ShadowRam
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    154 months ago

    “Pay smart people to have more kids, disincentivize stupid people from having kids."

    Why?

    Dingledorf assumes smart people breed smart kids and stupid people breed stupid kids?

    Title of article should be “Stupid Person makes Stupid Assumptions”

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      44 months ago

      assumes smart people breed smart kids and stupid people breed stupid kids

      From a “nature + nurture” point of view in a primitive world, it can be argued that people who strike the combo, are “more likely” to both pass on their own genetic predisposition, and be “more prepared” to raise their kids up to a similar standard.

      In a modern world though, I’d still rather have professional teachers take care of the nurture part, and shut up about nature at least until someone can unequivocally point to the “smartness genes”… at which point I’d ask for a GMO cat with a 200 IQ, yay!

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          34 months ago

          Arguably… kind of, but never with a single number.

          From a multidimensional intersectional hypothesis of intelligence point of view, the “IQ” should be a series of several hundred measurements; a single number is meaningless. Even then, we still lack a bottom-up theory of intelligence, so all tests are just sociological comparisons as related to a population at a given moment in time.

          There are indications that some “basic capability for developing problem solving skills” may exist, but we’re nowhere close to even defining it, much less measuring it.

          Somewhat ironically, as we’ve developed AI systems… the only way to train them, has been to use neural networks and a “spray and pray” approach with extra steps, making them into 99% black boxes… so now we can “reproduce some behaviors associated with intelligence”, without being that much closer to understanding it 😆

  • @[email protected]
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    354 months ago

    They’re just so eager to pull their masks off, like. Like, there is only so much algorithm manipulation can do to obscure observable reality from their audience.

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        Or fake social security checks going through when some idiot breaks the COBOL code that runs federal payments system.

  • Powderhorn
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    We’re going straight to eugenics in under a month? Jesus fuck.

    ETA: Also, you chucklefucks, I already got fixed years ago because of the horrific state of affairs in the world. I find it morally reprehensible to bring children into this world given what we know about climate change alone. Political shifts are just icing.

  • petrescatraian
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    24 months ago

    How do they have the courage to say this? Them and their biggest supporters will be the first on the list

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      First you need the baseball bat phase … where they beat each other over the head to produce enough bumps so that the phrenologists can analyze them.

  • Match!!
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    254 months ago

    they’re really just spitballing genocide huh

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    454 months ago

    "Abstract - The first negative eugenic measure passed by the Hitler regime in July 1933 was the forced sterilization law, which primarily targeted neuropsychiatric patients with “feeble mindedness,” schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Also included were Huntington’s chorea, bipolar disorder, and alcoholism, along with other congenital defects.” - https://academic.oup.com/book/40410/chapter-abstract/347295636

  • Baggins
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    94 months ago

    I take it he’s at the front of the queue.

  • Baggins
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    34 months ago

    Look at the article, scroll down about half way and look at Carlson’s face (I know that’s a painful thought but just humour me) then tell me you didn’t burst out laughing.