2024-09-29 17:32 UTC
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@abucci@buc.ci 2024-09-29 17:41
@adityakhanna@mathstodon.xyz @timnitGebru@dair-community.social Because IQ is and always has been a eugenicist mainstay, from before Minsky was born. Immigrants were feared and called feeble-minded in an attempt to keep them from sullying our wonderful American blood (I'm being sarcastic). A bunch of weird people who thought we should selectively breed human beings the way we breed horses or roses pushed these ideas into every corner of life that they could. Obsession with an impossible notion of intelligence abstracted away from physical embodied life is a hallmark of eugenicist thinking. The most charitable way to read Minsky's words is that he was ignorant of all this despite living right through it. Even though I find that very difficult to believe it's already worthy of a facepalm.