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slopjockey ( slopjockey@awful.systems )  to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago

No, intelligence is not like height

theinfinitesimal.substack.com

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No, intelligence is not like height

theinfinitesimal.substack.com

slopjockey ( slopjockey@awful.systems )  to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago
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... and the reason is one of the most interesting findings from modern behavioral genetics

It earned its “flagged off HN” badge in under 2 hours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41366609

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    Imagine being a skilled San Francisco-style tech worker, at the apex of your industry, and the heights of intellect and rigor you can scale outside of that very specific context turn out to be “race science” apologia. Probably a lesson in there somewhere.

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      It’s pretty on-brand for a techbro to search for answers in what they see as “the code” (genome) while ignoring the entire rest of the fucking world.

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        They’re too stupid to understand anything beyond “the code”, its unsurprising they’re treating it as a technological hammer in a world of nails

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          at the logical end of this reasoning they do sound like a bunch of tools

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