Yeah, he has his political biases, to be sure, and he gets no small amount of details wrong, but his overall theory re: the impact of geography & available domesticatable animals is sound.
I gave up on that book after he airily dismissed a century of IQ data with no evidence whatsoeverhttps://twitter.com/Digital_Pimp/status/1086340193316233216 …
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The book seems to make a case for a pareto distribution of technology and civilization. IQ would add to it whether Jared Diamond likes it or not.
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I read Guns, Germs, and Steel, from which it was clear to me that the author had a political & ideological agenda, although he may not have realised it himself.
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Nassim Taleb is only "a genius" to people who've had minimal contact with actually intelligent people.
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Yep, me too. Waste of time to read it.
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The moment you point out that the bell curve accurately predicts almost all aspects of life from crime to college admissions to drop out and murder rates, your labelled a racist and get your noble prize taken away. It's a complete inversion of the truth.
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totally agreed. i threw that book in the garbage. i couldn't think of a more perfect place to put it.
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Serious question: could the construct of IQ be flawed as people may take this metric as the indicator of all intelligence when it us not?
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Facts aren't racist. Denying facts can be though.
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