Comment by latexr
10 hours ago
> The definition of "can/cannot do math" didn't change. That's not up for debate.
That is not the argument. The point is that the way you phrased it is ambiguous. “Math” isn’t a single thing, and “cannot” can either mean “cannot yet” or “cannot ever”. I don’t know what the “expert” said since you haven’t provided that information, I’m directly asking you to clarify the meaning of their words (better yet, link to them so we can properly arrive at a consensus).
> Definitions don't change.
Yes they do! All the time!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-that-used-to-...
> And that's literally moving the goalposts.
Good example. There are no literal goal posts here to be moved. But with the new accepted definition of the words, that’s OK.
> There are zillions of comments saying this.
Saying what, exactly? Please be clear, you keep being ambiguous. The thread barely crossed a couple of hundred comments as of now, there are not “zillions” of comments in agreement of anything.
> You are keen to not trying to understand what the quote is saying. (…) If you can't or won't see that, there's no reason to continue this thread.
Indeed, if you ascribe wrong motivations and put a wall before understanding what someone is arguing, there is indeed no reason to continue the thread. The only wrong part of your assessment is who is doing the thing you’re complaining about.
He’s a booster and I don’t think he argues in good faith.
He seems to be fixated on this notion that humans are static and do not evolve - clearly this is false. What people thought as being a determinant for intelligence also changes as things evolve.