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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Martschenko appears to be cited in the course materials primarily as a scholar examining the TESCREAL movement's fixation on intelligence metrics and their role in posthuman and AI advancement projects. Her work is instrumental for understanding how concepts like IQ and "universal intelligence" function ideologically within tech-utopian circles, shaping both the theoretical frameworks and practical priorities of contemporary AI development. This critical analysis of intelligence obsession helps contextualize how measurable cognition becomes a proxy for value in AI and cybernetics discourse.
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