>> what's the point of all the intervention in the form of teaching/parenting styles and whatnot, if g factor is nature and immutable by large? What's the logic of the educators here?
> does not nutrition and education help some people more than others? That’s the g factor which is mainly genetic.
Yes, if you ignore or compensate everithing else, it's mainly genetic.
> The measured value of this construct depends on the cognitive tasks that are used, and little is known about the underlying causes of the observed correlations.
(We've had a lot of discussions of IQ on Hacker News. My observations suggest that everyone who supports it in more than 3 comments in the same thread is a scientific racist with a poor understanding of the research on IQ.)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1412107?origin=crossref&seq=1
I’m not subscribing to the notion that g should be controlled for environment, quite the contrary, but if you do, what is left is the part of g which is genetics.
EDIT: The bit of knowledge I have comes from being published in psychiatric epidemiology on the topic of cognitive impairment and substance use.
I'd be interested to see how you'd go about controlling for those other things: so far, I haven't seen anyone manage it.
Excellent quote! Unfortunately not all high g people engage in moral reasoning, and I fear that they will tend to exploit lower g people, rather than to help them utilize AI to compensate. There is a real opportunity to help individuals with cognitive impairments enhance their abilities with AI. The question is how, and how they collectively feel about it.
That doesn't sound like a deep insight, to be honest.