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I don't see it as a dialectic. I see it as a continuum.

There is value to replacing a percentage of human labor with machine labor.

Jordan Peterson said there are no jobs in the USA for people with IQs below 87: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3w_F9r-aI&t=338s

Mr. Peterson says lower IQ people are do better at more repetitive jobs.

Machines and AI can do more repetitive jobs. Technology took those jobs.

As AI advances, the lowest useful IQ will move up. I wonder where it will be in 10 years.




Maybe they will invent treatments for IQ below 90 so that our ability can move up along with technology.


I had hopes that we would be modifying them genetically to help everone have productive places in our society. Instead, we seem determined to live out the movie Idiocracy while simultaneously living out Bridge on the River Kwai.


The rate in AI IQ gain is not limited by ethics and clinical trials.




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