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
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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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man the solution is really simple, build a society so productive and with such a large surplus that the losses from the cognitively impaired just don’t matter at all at the margin
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we need the infinite frontier not just so the people who need a frontier have somewhere to go but also so that the ones who can’t don’t need to sufferhttps://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1186521868053831685 …
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all these other things, whether religious charity or state redistribution are just salami slicing, we’re so far from the ceiling of collective productive capacity that arguing over them is irrelevant in the long run
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that's plausible. otoh im not sure this is exactly amenable to wealth solutions unfortunately
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basically this idkhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1411047327863693314?s=19 …
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