Having a bad time reading LLM critiques as I gradually realize they're not gonna critique the idea of human general intelligence
Short story: I taught the upper division seminar on "Intelligence" in my psych dept in grad school & got a viciously sexist student eval from someone who was really angry that I criticized the idea of IQ and "taught too much history and arguments instead of science and answers". We talked about definitions of intelligence across different cultures and times and over the course of your lifetime and most people loved it! But even back then the backlash was wild just for saying "it's complicated"
@grimalkina I remember reading The Mismeasure of Man when I was in grad school (for physics, so this was just pleasure reading) and being struck when Gould pointed out that the existence of general intelligence is a hypothesis that must be proved; it's by no means obvious that it's true, and the burden of proof is on those asserting it. It was one of those things that's obvious once it's stated, but I don't think I could have clearly articulated it before reading that book.
@internic I had the same experience reading it as a teenager!