about a quarter of the people in the US roughly speaking have an IQ of 90 or less about 10% have an IQ less than 80 that's like 35M people i dont know how much time you spend around people in this state but it is often difficult for them to get their lives in order
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Replying to @eigenrobot
homelessness is a good case study for this sort of thing there are roughly three tranches of homelessness: 1. homeless for economic reasons. lost job, have family, basically functional people. dealing with this is straightforward
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Replying to @eigenrobot
2. homeless because of addiction problems. this is difficult because the dependency is strong enough that people will refuse to eg go to a shelter if they have to stop using, and shelters have a difficult time putting addicts up because they often have behavioral issues
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Replying to @eigenrobot
3. homeless because of mental health. this is extremely difficult to deal with because the afflicted people are worse than nonfunctional, often destructive or unpredictably violent, can't keep up a living space. cures dont really exist
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Replying to @eigenrobot
we used to have asylums for (3) but they were often very bad, involved a lot of forcible drugging, in the 20C there were things like forced sterilization or lobotomies even rich families did this shit, eg rosemary kennedy. just evil so we got rid of asylums mostly
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Replying to @eigenrobot
this is the result and this kind of thing is a common pattern, you can generalize from this to other classes of problems :/pic.twitter.com/jLqUfHQi8q
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Replying to @eigenrobot
i mean, okay but still, bold of you to believe in statistics
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Replying to @acidshill
i dont but simply plotting data is often fairly reliable if you dont like that im going to simply pull rank and remind you that you were not even a twinkle in your daddys eye when many major us cities were largely no go zones
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check out Bonfire of the Vanities sometime its good reading on the 80s :)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
i think that in order to say anything about this i’d need to figure out what claims you’re making, if any, and then figure out what claims i’m making, if any and i just don’t have the energy for that right now
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Replying to @acidshill
yeah object level talks suck hard lets abandon this im gonna go lift :)
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