Just to make it clear:
1. I hate xmas.
2. I don’t answer to happy xmas phone calls.
3. I don’t answer to happy xmas mails.
4. I don’t answer to happy xmas sms.
5. I want most people to die today.
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By E. Volokh.
‘I don’t intend to blog much more on this, but since a bunch of people raised this point, let me speak to it. The argument (buttressed sometimes by citations to the movie Gattaca) is that rich people will improve their kids’ genes, which will increase social stratification, as descendants of the poorer people will find it harder to compete. I profoundly disagree with this argument.
1. If you take this seriously, it would be largely an argument against private education (and I’ve heard the argument made this way), since of course private education lets rich parents improve their kids’ competitiveness relative to poor kids. You might even be upset when smart people marry other smart people.
Continue reading “Selecting for Intelligence as Causing Societal Inequality”
User can’t get her mapping software to properly display states on the U.S. map she’s preparing. So she calls the vendor’s support line, and this pilot fish takes the call.
“I followed the usual help desk rubric without success,” fish says, “until she mentioned that the map’s database shows that the U.S. has 3,192 states.”
Fish understands the problem at once: The user has inadvertently added the country’s 3,000-plus counties to the list of states. “Over 3,000 states — I think we’ve found our problem!” fish announces, and waits to hear the user agree.
Silence.
Continue reading “Geography”
My so called life* 