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If the AI can distinguish between good and bad reasoning, it can select training material that has a higher average than than the corpus. If it can output data that covers the range, it can generate its own data to bootstrap higher functioning models (like alpha go playing against itself to achieve superhuman go playing skills).

I also don’t think you need to remove the dumb comments from the training material anyway. The AI could be able to simulate either someone of 80 IQ or 180 IQ, producing output consistent with both personas.

Lower IQ people are likely under represented online.

Accurate information is also over represented because you can be wrong in far more ways than you can be correct. In other words the wisdom of the crowd is in part the 10% of people that know X all match each other while the other 90% is all over the place.

It's not so much about IQ but the amount of knowledge in the system.

And ignorant person could have a very high IQ still be very ignorant.

LLMs may not be "smart" but they know a lot.