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0 pointsplagiarist2y ago0 comments

I am suggesting:

You're making decisions for an LLM company. People start using your models to write articles making those claims. Not to promote equal access to education, but to promote delusions that specific groups are genetically inferior.

What's your move?

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EnigmaFlare2y ago· 2 in thread

Is that not what the science says though? "inferior" is a bit of a loaded word but if you take the emotion out of it, we compare all sorts of things that way. It still sounds like you want AI to hide some science that's offensive to popular opinion.

plagiaristOP2y ago

You... literally believe black people are less intellectually capable?

No, I don't think that's what the science says. To the best of my knowledge the only thing that says that was a biased study comparing children of wildly different backgrounds, and has been completely discredited by serious scientists.

I want AI to not assist people like whoever taught you to think that.

dash22y ago

To quote Wikipedia, which is not biased in favour of race science:

> A 2001 meta-analysis of the results of 6,246,729 participants tested for cognitive ability or aptitude found a difference in average scores between black people and white people of 1.1 standard deviations. Consistent results were found for college and university application tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (N = 2.4 million) and Graduate Record Examination (N = 2.3 million), as well as for tests of job applicants in corporate settings (N = 0.5 million) and in the military (N = 0.4 million).

I don't actually think it is controversial that there are IQ differences between ethnic groups. What is controversial is (a) how much IQ means, is it a good measure, etc. and (b) are the causes of these differences genetic or environmental.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

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