The speaker argues that the conception of intelligence as a single-valued trait is rooted in eugenics and racism.

“But the other thing is this idea of intelligence,”

“It's the idea of measuring intelligence, intelligence as a single valued thing is itself an idea.”

“that had that that basically comes out of eugenics and racism um you know iq tests which are taken quite a bit more seriously by people like yudkowsky than they should be um and are are you know something that was developed essentially as a tool for eugenics and uh and when you look at the modern modern”