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"American Renaissance is run by Jared Taylor, a self-described white advocate, whose X account has been banned since December of 2017, including under Elon Musk."

Evidently, there is a limit to Musk's stomach for truth.

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Grok is better than some other LLM's, which even refuse to answer questions about race differences in IQ. However, its "wokeness" level is not much lower than chatGPT's.

I asked Grok a few days ago this question: "Could you describe the role of genes and of the environment in IQ differences between the races?"

A long lecture followed, using much woke argumentation and some woke (CRT) terminology like "systemic racism".

I then delved into this part of its answer: "Human genetic variation does not align neatly with socially defined racial categories. There's more genetic variation within racial groups than between them, which challenges the notion of significant genetic differences in intelligence between races."

The first statement above basically restates the well-known woke standpoint that racial categories are social constructs and have little to do with genetic differences. The second statement is Lewontin's (1972) finding, which is used, to this day, to support the first statement.

A long discussion followed, where I brought up research by R. Lewontin, A.W.F. Edwards ("Lewontin's Fallacy"), N. Risch, H.Tang, D. J. Witherspoon. It knew the relevant research of all these people.

During the discussion I had to ask Grok again and again to answer succinctly because it tended to give lectures, trying to bring arguments irrelevant to my questions, all of which were supposed to weaken the case for the biological basis of race categories (e.g. "clines").

At the end, I asked: "... by the end of our discussion you have clearly negated both of your original statements mentioned above. Do you agree?"

Its answer: "Yes, I agree that based on our discussion, I have contradicted both of my original statements from the first answer."

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