Ironically, I literally wrote an entire chapter of my dissertation about exactly how bullshit and eugenicist the notion of "intelligence" is, both in general, and in specific relation to the prospect of creating "AI." bsky.app/profile/ebth...
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Most of the really smart people I’ve met DID NOT have PhDs.
aug 9, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe the only positive effect of all this for me has been really driving that point home.
jun 22, 2024, 6:49 pm • 4 0 • view
@alexhanna.bsky.social @emilybender.bsky.social I'm always getting reminded of the AI Con!
aug 10, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Damn I wish I had read this chapter and cited it in the book!!
aug 10, 2025, 6:33 pm • 5 0 • view
Just more evidence of why we all get along so much 😂
aug 10, 2025, 6:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Luckily nobody noticed that I f'ed up and linked the wrong @emilymbender.bsky.social. Maybe the other @emilybender.bsky.social will become an ally tho, so it's not all bad 🤔.
aug 10, 2025, 7:19 pm • 3 0 • view
there's a reason why the empirical research on the biological basis of human intelligence is a history of data fabrication (cyril burt), lies (twins-raised-apart studies whose twins were not actually raised apart), and misuse of legitimate but limited-in-utility analysis techniques (GWAS)
jun 22, 2024, 5:44 pm • 15 6 • view
across domains and history, very few topics in science have been held to as low a standard of evidence, rigor, and theoretical coherence as can be found in the pseudoscience of hereditarian views of intelligence
jun 22, 2024, 5:45 pm • 11 2 • view
I’ve started trying to use “curiosity” as my index, because the genuinely curious will seek and be open to revision while the anti-curious will resist learning. It doesn’t have to do with innate capacity.
jun 22, 2024, 5:31 pm • 53 7 • view
This feels like an exceptional way of looking at things
jun 22, 2024, 10:12 pm • 7 0 • view
Yes this. I have a god daughter who is 8 now and is in a challenging economic situation. I told mom to make her curious about the world. Then she needs to show her daughter how to find the answers to her questions. Just got her a globe. Next: oyster mushroom kit. Then: microscope. First: Gatorland.
jun 23, 2024, 1:20 pm • 2 0 • view
curiosity is a conclusive sign of intelligence. Being curious means recognizing that you don't know some thing and are willing to learn. Next step is formulating that curiosity as a question to be answered. That allows you to learn about that thing. "wonder is the beginning of learning"
feb 21, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
My life has improved immeasurably since I prioritized curiosity as a mindset in myself and the people I try to surround myself with. ❤️
jun 22, 2024, 11:36 pm • 10 0 • view