This is a good time to remember that without immigration the US will only have 5% of the top people in each field. http://paulgraham.com/95.html
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I feel that you may be missing the imbed bias currently within the tech industry that this hypothesis breeds. Disappointing.
The hypothesis that people everywhere are born with roughly the same distribution of innate ability breeds bias?
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Yes. It does. These perceptions + pattern matching are part of the reason our industry lacks diversity now. sigh
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You didn't say in the essay that talent was necessarily equally distributed. You made a specific reference to the "best" programmers.
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The whole essay is based on that principle.
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I would REALLY like for you to consider how this perception "could" play out when in hiring, funding, etc for Black techies here.
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