What happens when you use the remove(int indexordata) method, in a List<int> ?

Here is a quote from the Java documentation's Determine Method Signature section:

The second step searches the type determined in the previous step for member methods. This step uses the name of the method and the types of the argument expressions to locate methods that are both accessible and applicable, that is, declarations that can be correctly invoked on the given arguments.

There may be more than one such method, in which case the most specific one is chosen. The descriptor (signature plus return type) of the most specific method is one used at run time to perform the method dispatch.

The first sentence in the second paragraph is the one that seems relevant to this discussion, I interpret it as stating that Java will indeed prioritize specific type declarations over more generic ones.

I also tested this with this code:

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
      List<Integer> intList = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(5, 0));
      System.out.println(intList);
      intList.remove(0);
      System.out.println(intList);
    }

}

Which you can run by going to this Java REPL.

Running the code results in [5, 0] being printed out first and then [0], meaning that Java interpreted the 0 argument as an index rather than a value to remove.