Most people cannot learn to code. Most people cannot learn to code. It isn’t fair, but— Maybe some other Earth found a better way to teach, but— The just-world hypothesis says it should only take diligence, but— It’s happier not to think so, but— Most people cannot learn to code.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
I'm not sure that's true. Most could, if tbey really really had to. Most people just don't want to.
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Replying to @PointlessSpike
Spoken like someone who has never personally witnessed somebody fail to learn to code.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
If you stuck them in a prison which they had to code their way out of, and had an eternity to do so, do you really think they would never get out?
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Replying to @PointlessSpike
Literally eternity? Then a monkey with a typewriter could get out. But someone who can't Fizzbuzz might *not* get out because they would literally never think of trying all possible solutions, or devise a valid informal iterator for them if they did.
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The category “poor countries that seem to produce a lot of coders” is just a list of poor countries with very large populations. Brains suitable for coding are ~evenly distributed while opportunities are not.
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"anyone can learn to do it" "Higher than average IQ and passionate interest is all that's needed"
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