Recently thinking about effective sibling relationships wrt startups, e.g. @kimbal/@elonmusk & @patrickc/@collision. A natural, fully-trustworthy partner who’s easy to sync with = massive force multiplier, w/ compounding effects from childhood on?
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Replying to @webdevMason @kimbal and
Forget trusting/syncing w/siblings - I've always been a little perplexed at the lack of *identical twins* among really successful people. (There's a slight health/intelligence penalty being a twin, yes, but that doesn't seem remotely enough to explain the absence.)
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Replying to @gwern @webdevMason
Oh wait, do you have a handy link for the claim in the parenthesis?
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Replying to @ArtirKel @webdevMason
Not particularly. There was some Florida study I vaguely recall where the penalty was like -2 IQ points. It comes up in the twin study literature because environmentalists are always going 'maybe identical twins are *totally different* from regular people!' They're only a little.
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It could have been more challenging for twins in other times.
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Twins have been compared to non-twins going back a century now to like the 1920s if not earlier.
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