2026-10-25 19:14 UTC
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/117503114528255910
I understand and share the joy of dunking on Trump, but please don’t do it this way:
- IQ is largely a nonsense metric
- Given its context and history, using IQ as an insult is playing with eugenicist fire
- Purporting to quantify “intelligence” at all is wildly problematic (we don’t even have a good definition of the thing we’re measuring here, folks)
- Purporting to quantify intelligence of someone at a •distance• is even wildly-er problematic
- Measuring human intelligence with an LLM is so off the problematic charts I don’t even know where to start
Find a better insult. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel with that guy. (“Like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” was a pretty damn good one.) And if you (rightly) want to puncture his wild lies about his superintelligence, focus on his •lying• and not his IQ. Please and thank you.
Replies (3)
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-10-25 19:19
@inthehands@hachyderm.io I don't need any "measure of intelligence" to know the president is a moron.
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@fraggle@social.coop 2026-10-25 19:16
@inthehands@hachyderm.io this is the tool of the enemy etc etc
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@shimon@kolektiva.social 2026-10-25 19:18
@inthehands@hachyderm.io As someone who explains to students every spring semester how bad the IQ conception and use are, I completely agree.