1/ Big Ag overproduced subsidized grain, drove creation of "food pyramid" to create demand. This led to obesity, fucked up nutrition science
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2/ Big Ed overproduced subsidized K-12 robots, drove creation of IQ-HR complex to create demand.This led to ruined kids,fucked up ed-science
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3/ The similarities continue. In Ag, now we have a variety of reactionary, dumb nutrition fads because of eroded trust in nutrition science
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4/ In ed, we have a variety of idiotic "alternate" education schemes (and a few good ones) because trust in the core institutions is gone.
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5/ But messed up ed-science had a big unintended effect: IQ became the anchoring concept in AI research, a truly bizarre event.
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what are you thinking of here? I’ve never seen IQ referred to in the AI literature.
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The historical roots go back to IQ. Modern notion of "Intelligence" itself is a concept born together with IQ
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interesting. I bet current Deep Learning-based question-answering approaches will lead to a system acing the IQ test within a few years
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Yup, and it would be a great achievement, yet meaningless as far as Singularity scaremongering is concerned

