when we talk about back row Americans this woman is the sort of person who should perhaps come to mind for you. her IQ has been tested and it was in the low 90s. she is not out of the ordinary
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government programs are really not helpful in a situation like this. her fundamental problem is not a lack of monetary resources but a lack of cognitive resources and there exist no functional means of transferring those.
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this is not an original point but it really drives home the extent to which making a set of broadly-good life choices the default for most people in society was important, and their destruction by cognitively well-endowed people who could skate by without them a disaster
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i had not expected to end up a social conservative on consequentialist grounds but here we are
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there are many complaints about this thread. here I will comment on some solutions that have been discussed and others that have been tried or might be triedhttps://twitter.com/DistractedAnna/status/1411064196964495364?s=19 …
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first Anna's comment. I do not expect that anything will make people "smart" in the general sense but I also expect there are probably gains from establishing better default choice sets, ie presenting good options to dumb people rather than leaving them to flounder
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second is the option of the status quo, which mostly leads to capable people simply isolating themselves in functional enclaves and leaving everyone else to suffer
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this is a stable choice in that it requires no energy inputs. it also has the obvious downside of lots of people leading awful lives. it might be optimal in the sense that theres nothing to be done anyway, cant deny that
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one criticism levered was that older societies were also not particularly good at dealing with this problem and pointed to things like Magdalene laundries and such its a real problem! i guess am not proposing this as a solutionhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland …
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later Progressives were fond of and really even defined by their advocacy for eugenics eg, see Buck v Bell (1927), regarding forced sterilization. it has never been overturned incidentally I do not favor thishttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell …
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more what actually seems to work is what the Mormons have done in Utah. see
@asymmetricinfo's nice piece on thishttps://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5111151&itype=CMSID …Show this thread -
regrettably I would hate living in this kind of social environment but as I age I see the appeal on the current margin
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