Spot the Darwinian error: "Let's pogrom the Jews harder, because their cognitive flair is really annoying."
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Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness If intelligence is all that matters, how do you account for the culture and conditions of the shtetl an the Pale of Settlement?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller Intelligence tends (strongly) to win, is all. I'm not trying to aestheticize it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness So the only thing the Enlightenment got right was emancipating the Jews?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller Everyone has the Jew-thing dialed up to 11 tonight. Can we talk about something else, just for the sake of proportion?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness Of course. My questions have less to do with Jews than the value of sheer intelligence absent other considerations.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller Intelligence isn't, of course, everything, but it's the H-bomb of psychological traits. Everything shelters under it.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness Just so, an adequate reason to fear it if unrestrained imo.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
@AliceTeller Nature shares your concerns. http://www.ufblog.net/no-brainer/
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Replying to @Outsideness
@AliceTeller ... Brains would be far too dangerous to permit, if it wasn't -- scarily -- that the other guy has one.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 4 more replies
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