Why did Scott Alexander Siskind *really* nuke Slate Star Codex? Does the New York Times care more about truth than the rationalist community? Are these rhetorical questions actually answered in my latest at Model Citizen?https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/grey-lady-steel-man …
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Charles Murray strongly opposes programs like affirmative action and "welfare as we know it" because he thinks the underclass are where they are because of their objective lack of capacity and pushing them beyond their capacities is cruel
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He therefore holds the view that Scott thinks of as deeply compassionate ("Just give them money and stop hoping they'll be able to do important jobs") You don't have to specify Black poor people for this to be a noxious attitude about poor people
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This goes to where race science arguments often misunderstand between-group comparisons in social science. It's actually possible, a priori, that black people are intellectually superior to other groups and non-heritable factors explain disproportionate black poverty.
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This can be true even if heritable intelligence helps explain the distribution of wealthy in society. That this never occurs to people into this subject can be a tell about a person's stereotypes.
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