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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6/ IQ is a singular, metric-based scientifically meaningless model of cognition (reduced to a legible "intelligence") created for HR needs..
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7/ Anchoring as generative an idea as "artificial cognition" in a pragmatic, unscientific HR instrument leads predictably to silly AI.
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8/ The idea of a singular superintelligence that beats humans on one or even a handful of historically arbitrary metrics is NOT significant
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9/ The very idea of "intelligence" as a model of cognition shares common roots with the _testing_ of the intelligence aspect of cognition
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10/ This is ultimately why the idea of the Singularity is so meaningless.
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11/ Going back to the nutrition analogy, it's like worrying a robot will beat all humans on cholesterol and lung capacity tests.
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