https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_intelligence#Intelligence_across_cultures

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.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925336/

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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

Everyone isnt equal. You aren't listening

"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

Which, is exactly how I expected the conversation to go. And once again, I'm right.

I love winning

You have a problem with my "filter" on life which is fine. Everyone has their own filter

You get to choose your own filter

What makes a good filter is if it can

1.) Make you happy and
2.) predict future events with relative accuracy

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So I'm an optimist. Aboslutely. Because life is much better that way and generally it gives me a good predictor of how things are going to be

I don’t have a problem with you having that outlook, my only problem is trying to give it some sort of objective legitimacy by calling it science