As stated, yes, but once you get to “70 narrow abilities” of intelligence, my bullshit-o-meter starts to make excited noises… Though I haven’t looked at the paper, so maybe it’s excited for no good reason.
I agree, but unless I’ve misunderstood ragintumbleweed is citing CHC theory (the thing with the 70 narrow abilities) not as their main thesis but just to say “see, here’s some mainstream academic work on this stuff, and it fits well with my account!”. If it turns out that the 70 narrow abilities are entirely the product of fitting models to noise, or even that CHC theory as a whole is bullshit, that doesn’t make much difference to the claims ragintumbleweed has actually made.
As stated, yes, but once you get to “70 narrow abilities” of intelligence, my bullshit-o-meter starts to make excited noises… Though I haven’t looked at the paper, so maybe it’s excited for no good reason.
I agree, but unless I’ve misunderstood ragintumbleweed is citing CHC theory (the thing with the 70 narrow abilities) not as their main thesis but just to say “see, here’s some mainstream academic work on this stuff, and it fits well with my account!”. If it turns out that the 70 narrow abilities are entirely the product of fitting models to noise, or even that CHC theory as a whole is bullshit, that doesn’t make much difference to the claims ragintumbleweed has actually made.