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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

Effective Altruism is when you want to spend money on genetic engineering for race-and-IQ theories. Emphasises Richard Lynn fandom in the comments. Front-paged.

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Effective Altruism is when you want to spend money on genetic engineering for race-and-IQ theories. Emphasises Richard Lynn fandom in the comments. Front-paged.

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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

The Effective Altruist Case for Using Genetic Enhancement to End Poverty — EA Forum

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Original post: https://parrhesia.substack.com/p/the-effective-altruist-case-for-using …

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The case for the importance of IQ for numerous real-world outcomes was made in the controversial book The Bell Curve (1994) by psychologist Richard Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray. They cogently argued

No, they didn’t.

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