I've heard these people mentioned a lot (The Blank Slate is a book-long criticism of them). But I've never seen them anywhere online? Are they in academia, or really common in Silicon Valley? I don't have a lot of exposure to them online or in a midwestern college.
People who believe human intelligence is entirely the product of environment don't have to worry about moral issues raised by editing genes to increase intelligence, since that would be impossible.https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612997/the-crispr-twins-had-their-brains-altered/ …
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My experience with that is that rarely someone say « Gene doesn’t matter at all for intelligence. » However you will find a lot of people in humanities say « Of course gene have an effect ! » then turn around and explain litterally everything by only mentionning environment.
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Political beliefs don’t work like factual beliefs, of course.
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Hmmm. How do they fundamentally differ?
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There are literally zero people who believe that.
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In the US, 31% of people believe the universe is less than 10,000 years old.
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Nurture and nature. It’s pretty simple
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Obviously no one could reasonably believe that "human intelligence is entirely the product of environment."
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There are people who believe that differences in measured, average intelligence between human groups are mostly or entirely the product of environment. That belief wouldn't exclude the possibility that genetic modifications could raise or lower intelligence
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Translation: everyone on third base hit a triple
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You seem to be conflating necessary and sufficient conditions.
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