Maga’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future | Quinn Slobodian

S.The new thing Donald Trump and his partners in the Silicon Valley is an obsession with the intelligence rate. Being a “low individual” is a standard insult to the president’s ammunition, and being “IQ-IQ” is a standard form of equality with those who have the right to technology. However, in the drive of US sovereignty in artificial intelligence – indicates $ 500 billion (375 billion pounds) The advertisement of the Stargate project In the White House and an executive order for to merge Amnesty International in General Education, starting with kindergarten – there is a hidden paradox. If their vision of our economic future is achieved, then intelligence is that they can lose its meaning.

The intelligence test arose at a time when the United States and other industrial countries were concerned about the health of its residents. Employment campaigns for the Boer War in the United Kingdom, then the First World War, showed the male population who were unhealthy from their parents’ generation. Industrial work seems to be similar to the decline process, with a scared end point in the classic HG Wells novel, The Time Machine. Intelligence tests were a way to save diamonds from the category of new officers – and then a new elite – to direct the mass community from Slough of Depond to a more courageous future.

When manufacturing is still governed in the United States, the intelligence rate was estimated as a way to measure educational results, but it can be said that this was not until the end of the information economy in the eighties and nineties, knowledge workers have become undisputedly the forefront of prosperity in the future. It is not a coincidence that the recent intelligence rate in the 1990s, first through Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein’s notorious book, The Bell Curve, which indicated the presence of long -term gaps and cannot be overcome in public programs between public schools between racist programs in bright programs.

One of these people was Cortis Yarvin, a middle -aged software engineer and the political view of the amateur Drawn attention For his technical existence philosophy And what was his work Positively cited By Vice President of the United States, JD Vance. When a young man, Yarfin was part of the Julian Stanley Center for Talented Youth. From the beginning of the first decade of the twentieth century to the present time, it was a fixed defender of the importance of intelligence as a measure of the human value. In the late first decade of the twentieth century, as the foundations for what became called the dark enlightenment, or “the new reaction”, it was suggested that intelligence tests be used to cancel the voter qualification in South Africa after the apartheid.

The fetish of intelligence in Yarfin was an organic bump of the intellectual sub -culture of Silicon Valley. People who dealt with symbols and wrote a symbol throughout the day did not put special shares in the “general intelligence” in which the intelligence rate is measured, which evaluated the proximity of minds to computers specified by logic, memory and speed of processing.

The fetish of intelligence had a history in the valley. One of the pioneers of the need to take offspring measures to increase the intelligence rate was William Chocolate, the inventor of the transistor (building brick of computer chips), who suggested to people with an IQ less than average of 100 1000 dollars per point of intelligence To sterilize themselves. In 2014, American billionaire Peter Thil He said The problem with the Republican Party was that many of its leaders were “less intelligent” compared to the Democratic Party. IQ was also a common axis of discussion on the famous Codex Slatte Star Codex and other places in the alleged “rational” community.

All of this would have remained strange symptoms of chat panels in the San Francisco Bay area if it would not have had the last alliance between the world of technical right and the ruling party in Washington, DC. The idea that intelligence is serial and resistant to early intervention or improvement through state programs – that intelligence is meaningful and real – makes us closer to what Murray and Hernstein defended in the bell curve in the nineties, what is called “living with inequality”.

The US Department of Education was established in 1980 on a front against the bell curve. It has succeeded in believing that early interventions are very important to develop the brain and that the measurement of results was necessary to control the interventions so that educational tests could lead to more results throughout the United States. This administration is in the process of dismantling by the “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” by Elon Musk, where Linda McMahon, former CEO of entertainment in the world, promised to complete the mission. Musk, like Trump, refers to the intelligence rate repeatedly as if it was a meaningful and meaningful number. If you think it is difficult to connect, you also want to destroy the Ministry of Education and stop trying to create uniform results.

They have threw people around ways to characterize the ideology that links the West Coast of project owners and technology founders to the northeast and Middle West of the Conservative heroes and conservatives around the Maga Alliance. One way to see it is to return to nature, and the trips to the belief of countless facts about intelligence, sex and race in the face of a changing world.

However, here is rubbing. This itself is betting on the future of the American economy on its developments in artificial intelligence. Until now, childish artificial intelligence is primarily a way to automate many white collars that were previously the heart of the knowledge economy. Chatgpt, as the fans’ heads claim, can a better symbol than a computer science graduate in Stanford. It can make slides, take minutes and photograph discussion points faster than any product of the elite of liberal arts. Protein structures can be discovered faster than any rental from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The pro -intelligence argument was that, not fair or not, it was a ticket to Salem from the escalating movement and the merit associated with jobs in financing, technology, advertising and even public service or higher education. If these functions have been diluted to NUB, then the point of interest around the intelligence rate also disappears.

As Musk himself said, “We are all very stupid” compared to “superior digital intelligence” that helps him in building through initiatives such as his model in Xai, which is what He bought recently The social media platform X. Mark Anderson, Silicon Valley Capital, wrote that the program was eating the world. If their predictions are correct, you will also eat precious intelligence in the right.

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