Message from @Benjamin Bucks
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You literally just said “that’s not true” whenever I told you a fact based by studies.
Is that all you heard?
He seems more like a forum type than a discord type though
Yeah he does
Myst, intelligence can come from anywhere. Outliers can come from anywhere. Even if you try to breed intelligence, which I'm sure you could, what you're going to end up with is a world that kinda looks like the one we have now. Intelligence is pretty evenly distributed.
That's just cold hard science
///Psychologists have shown that the definition of human intelligence is unique to the culture that one is studying. Robert Sternberg is among the researchers who have discussed how one's culture affects the person's interpretation of intelligence, and he further believes that to define intelligence in only one way without considering different meanings in cultural contexts may cast an investigative and unintentionally egocentric view on the world. To negate this, psychologists offer the following definitions of intelligence;
Successful intelligence is the skills and knowledge needed for success in life, according to one's own definition of success, within one's sociocultural context.
Analytical intelligence is the result of intelligence's components applied to fairly abstract but familiar kinds of problems.
Creative intelligence is the result of intelligence's components applied to relatively novel tasks and situations.
Practical intelligence is the result of intelligence's components applied to experience for purposes of adaption, shaping and selection.[83]
Although typically identified by its western definition, multiple studies support the idea that human intelligence carries different meanings across cultures around the world. In many Eastern cultures, intelligence is mainly related with one's social roles and responsibilities. A Chinese conception of intelligence would define it as the ability to empathize with and understand others — although this is by no means the only way that intelligence is defined in China. In several African communities, intelligence is shown similarly through a social lens. However, rather than through social roles, as in many Eastern cultures, it is exemplified through social responsibilities. For example, in the language of Chi-Chewa, which is spoken by some ten million people across central Africa, the equivalent term for intelligence implies not only cleverness but also the ability to take on responsibility. Furthermore, within American culture there are a variety of interpretations of intelligence present as well. One of the most common views on intelligence within American societies defines it as a combination of problem-solving skills, deductive reasoning skills, and Intelligence quotient (IQ), while other American societies point out that intelligent people should have a social conscience, accept others for who they are, and be able to give advice or wisdom.[84]///
At a recent international conference, I heard former United States president Bill Clinton speak. As a part of his remarks, Clinton commented that in his visits to many developing countries around the world he has found that "The distribution of intelligence and ambition around the world is equal, but the access to opportunities is not" (my paraphrasing). Clinton's point echoes a message of Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers"; both argue that a critical key to success is less about who you are or where you are, but whether you have (not) access to the same opportunities as others.
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Again, science
Literally it’s just outliers
Which I accept
Maybe we should breed outliers. Would be bad luck for you
Listen, I know you want to believe everyone is equal but we’re not.
Ikr, am very smart boi
I never said everyone was equal
"Not everyone can be a great chef, but a great chef can come from anywhere"
The point of humanity is that people are different
To try and make a perfect human is a stupid idea because it's so arbitrary and subjective
What works best is a team of humans with different skillsets
Not the perfect human, but preserve quality
That's already happening though
Smart people aren't going around breeding with dumbasses. Like attracts like. Law of attraction
People generally find people that think like them and act like them, etc.
I mean, not everyone is the same, thank God, but everyone has something that they're good at. Some sort of talent, some sort of purpose. Everyone. Not some of the people, everyone.
It's just only so many people figure out what it is they're good at an have the opportunity to show it
Outliers are the people who find opportunities to work the system
Again, all of this is mainstream science. If you want to be a science guy, this is just what science tells us
I don’t have the energy for this autism
Just assume that you at 18 years old is not going to have the same opinions that you will at 21, or 30, or 60. At least hopefully not. You should be able to grow
The feeling youre experiencing is cognitive dissonance
But you can keep rejecting science is you want
Up to you boo boo
But everytime I keep proving you wrong you run away and make snide comments like "youre such a normie"
that's not an argument. It's an admission of defeat
Not to say that what you’re saying isn’t correct, but that doesn’t sound like a scientific finding at all. It’s a philosophy of optimism if anything