An obsession with “intelligence” and “IQ” is widespread among TESCREAL advocates. “Intelligence,” typically understood as the property measured by IQ tests, matters greatly because of its instrumental value for achieving the aims of TESCREA…Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter, 2007. “Universal intelligence: A definition of machine intelligence,” Minds and Machines, volume 17, number 4, pp. 391–444.
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Daphne Martschenko
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Daphne Martschenko appears as a passing reference in the course materials, cited in critiques of how "intelligence" and IQ function within TESCREAL ideology as a measure instrumentalized for posthuman and AI-maximalist projects. Her work seems to provide critical genealogy of how intelligence metrics have been weaponized in transhumanist and AI safety discourse, helping the readings expose the ideological underpinnings of claims about machine intelligence that claim neutrality but actually embed particular value systems.
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