I completely agree with this.
The whole thing makes me think of Dawkins fighting to secularise everyone with the naive idea that the result would be pure logic.
Waking up from the dream of everyone being identical could have a backlash in the opposite direction to what Cofnas' wants.
What if it is weaponised not by high mean IQ groups but against those groups, the same as now only worse?
This is a particularly poor line of reasoning; there's no reason to think even acceptance of "HBD" would lead to meritocracy or abolition of DEI regime - in fact, there's more reason to think the exact opposite: If people are born unequal then why not use gov to force equality on them?
This is problem types like Hanania or Cofnas or others have. They seem to think that you can just tell some aggrieved minority that has weaponized resentment towards you that "you're dumb" and University system will be fixed. Not going to work.
@CovertQOS Race realists don't care about the category of race, which is indeed not fixed or derivable. We care about systematic variation, which is derivable and continuous and important.
Penis size will depend on it lmao
This makes the argument for classifying variability with categories stronger, not weaker.
All race realist scientists want to study human variability accurately. That's the entire idea.
Mind blowing. This is going to lay the foundation for greatly accelerating the mechanics of science. And of course, other AI companies will be doing this too, probably within weeks or months.
Here's the details ๐
Anthropic just launched the research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS). It's a new shared interface that lets AI agents safely operate real lab and manufacturing equipment.
Today, connecting an AI system to physical hardware usually takes days or weeks of custom integration. Each instrument has its own software, devices donโt talk to each other, and there is no standard way for an agent to discover, control, or use them safely. MHS is designed to cut that integration time to hours or minutes.
The standard works by giving each device a common driver with simple primitives (โread temperature,โ โset position,โ etc.) plus natural language descriptions of how the machine actually behaves: weight, safety limits, what it can measure, what can go wrong. Agents can then discover devices on a network and orchestrate them through MCP, the command line, or code files. That last option matters: once the agent learns a procedure, it can package the steps into a deterministic script so the hardware can run without the model reasoning at every millisecond.
Early results are already concrete:
> At Genentech, an agent ran a real drug discovery protein assay with live error handling across a liquid handler, robotic arm, and plate reader.
> At HHMI Janelia, imaging work that previously took weeks was compressed to a day.
> At QuEra, an agent improved laser lock/stabilization on a quantum computer from 58% to 99.3% success without human intervention. That one particularly impressed me.
> Other labs (University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon) used it to speed serial dilutions, watch qPCR in real time, and coordinate incompatible instruments across multiple computers.
Anthropic is being explicit about the limits: current models still lack strong physical intuition because they learned the world from text and images. Researchers still had to teach the system that foaming in a sample is a physical failure, not a software bug. The research preview exists to build better safety evaluations before MHS is open sourced. But, this is exactly how it learns, and eventually acquires that physical intuition.
The longer term implication is that if AI agents can reliably run microscopes, liquid handlers, lasers, and robotic arms (and a lot more) under one standard, autonomous labs and factories become much more practical.
That is a direct path to faster science, higher experimental throughput, and tighter loops between hypothesis and result.
@tyler8299@TheFP If you say so, it must be true!
This is pure projection. Perhaps you would be unable to stop yourself discriminating, but the rest of us normal humans have no such issue with treating people equally.
Your view of people as innately evil if given truth is, in fact, evil.
WOW. @RupertLowe10 and his Restore Group just stood against Reform UK in Dover and allowed - on the same day hundreds of migrants arrived on our shores - the GREENS to win the very local council seat where migrants land.
Vote Restore - Get Greens.
Shameful. Wake up Britain
@tyler8299@TheFP It's odd that you that you think differences in IQ would justify any form of supremacist argument.
Universal rights don't depend on sameness. Nature is as it is, with no moral hierarchy.
It's funny because I have had supposed biologists make this statement to me as if it means anything, but it doesn't even need a refutation.
It is just idiotic.
There is more diversity of height within men and women than between them, therefore men are not taller on average than women? Are we thick?
Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug. If a mean difference can be measured, it exists.
@mydorazio@nathancofnas Statically modern genetic research invalidates the argument because within-group heritability (like individual height or IQ) cannot mathematically prove or explain between-group differences, as environmental conditions vary radically between different social populations
"A whistleblower on the faculty contacted me...his idea was that if I would break the story, then that would clear a path for the mainstream media to cover it.
@coldxman spoke to @nathancofnas about his work on 'race realism' and how he came to cover the Jason Arday scandal.
@CovertQOS sorry i just realised that I am debating race realism with someone that is a 'BBC enjoyer'.
hilarious -- have a good day and enjoy knowing that race is real ๐
How can anyon sign a letter to fire an academic for scientific views when they themselves cannot offer any sort of argument as to why those views are wrong?
Just a cheap appeal to authority?
Absolutely insane.
@PierreBitwise@EricMuraille We based ourselves on what his colleagues --experts in genetics-- have written about "race realism"-- go argue with them please.
@PierreBitwise@EricMuraille We based ourselves on what his colleagues --experts in genetics-- have written about "race realism"-- go argue with them please.
@itchy_wheezy@Chris_Segroves There is no "right answer", that's the fundamental problem with people trying to brute-force their ideology into these patterns
It's descriptive, and biology and evolution really doesn't care about your human-imposed values
Someone tell turtles that they are just brute forced ideology and need to ditch the shells real quick
This is all so absurd. Biological variation is REAL
@itchy_wheezy@Chris_Segroves There is no "right answer", that's the fundamental problem with people trying to brute-force their ideology into these patterns
It's descriptive, and biology and evolution really doesn't care about your human-imposed values
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