Great piece (and great meeting you last weekend), I'll return for a more close read later, but the thing that immediately strikes me is how quantifiable measures of "intelligence" such as "g factor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)) operate as almost the negative image of this false totality. If AI is the fake totality of a sort of social intelligence, then "g factor" is the fake totality of individual intelligence, similarly a product of statistical methodologies intended to produce an articulation of some "fake" whole, that can then be leveraged for the ends of capital (IQ testing for jobs, "meritocratic" endeavors, etc).
It strikes me that the entire "gifted kid" discourse ultimately comes down to the privileging of the individual through statistical measures of this sort, via the orientation you describe toward the individual subject, contrasted with the actuality of creative production as embedded in social relations. So the AI is, in a sense, a promise from the capitalists to the gifted kid cum adult, that "now you can finally reach your potential", but at the cost that you describe, of passivity. It's the sustaining of this fantasy (+ its confrontation with the negative fantasy of those who are already embedded within those pre-existing social relations in a more active way) that seems to create all of this emotion and discoursing.
Great piece (and great meeting you last weekend), I'll return for a more close read later, but the thing that immediately strikes me is how quantifiable measures of "intelligence" such as "g factor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)) operate as almost the negative image of this false totality. If AI is the fake totality of a sort of social intelligence, then "g factor" is the fake totality of individual intelligence, similarly a product of statistical methodologies intended to produce an articulation of some "fake" whole, that can then be leveraged for the ends of capital (IQ testing for jobs, "meritocratic" endeavors, etc).
It strikes me that the entire "gifted kid" discourse ultimately comes down to the privileging of the individual through statistical measures of this sort, via the orientation you describe toward the individual subject, contrasted with the actuality of creative production as embedded in social relations. So the AI is, in a sense, a promise from the capitalists to the gifted kid cum adult, that "now you can finally reach your potential", but at the cost that you describe, of passivity. It's the sustaining of this fantasy (+ its confrontation with the negative fantasy of those who are already embedded within those pre-existing social relations in a more active way) that seems to create all of this emotion and discoursing.
meme debris
real subsumption
epistemic imperialism
microdescions
i love chewing on these terms!
Oh my, this is a cabinet of wonders.