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The speaker argues that people draw on language from contemporary purveyors of race science and racism when defining intelligence, including in academic papers.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“you will see people pulling”
“uh language from those people uh when trying to define things like intelligence um like in academic papers and stuff like that um so yeah that is that is sort of the the really short argument um there's a longer and more developed version of it that i give some of in my book and you can find elsewhere as well”Play from 1:03:18Report a misattribution
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