I mean the whole point of the “bitter” part is that if you push most people that aren’t convinced of the data hypothesis, they will talk of a belief that there’

I mean the whole point of the “bitter” part is that if you push most people that aren’t convinced of the data hypothesis, they will talk of a belief that there’s “something special” that happens to create intelligence that isn’t just raw number crunching (so to speak). It’s a human bias in how we view social hierarchy and expertise, and ignores the epistemic/biological perspective. It’s a philosophical position as much as a technical one