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Is there a different way I could voice disagreement with the use of the phrase reverse racism?
Comments about pet peeve phrases tend to be low quality and off topic, but if you had offered an insight instead of a snarky dismissal, that would have been better. Also, ideological buzz-language like "are white people such special snowflakes" never does any good, regardless of what position you favor.
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The study of IQ (and the underlying g ) is one of two or three (definitely less than 6) crown jewels of psychology. You should probably read the actual science, "we" know quite a bit about intelligence. (I can help get you started if you're really interested, but I suspect you aren't.)
Thank you, I am indeed interested and I do read the actual science as you suggest. I study artificial intelligence so I'm in a position to know that there is no universally accepted definition of intelligence, certainly not a formal one that would allow us to encode it in a program and so reproduce intelligence in a machine. There is very little disagreement on that in the field of AI. In fact, there is so much agree…
People may still quibble, but I was under the impression the standard acceptable definition for intelligence (at least among AI folks) is Legg and Hutter's informal "the ability to efficiently achieve goals in a wide range of domains". (Which has been formalized with AIXI.) I'm also aware of several groups in the AI field who believe they can actually construct a mind, in fact that this is the safest way forward, and that hoping it just "emerges" is folly as old as the first neural net proponents...