How about un-recentered SAT score mean and median?
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Or, you know, ability to build a Saturn V and go to the moon (using slide rules & early computers)? I trust in
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Editing diseased human embryos seems pretty
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Replying to @Brian_Sipple @wycats and
Not there yet, and that may bootstrap into Something Else, but it won't be Western Civ (my point!).
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Replying to @BrendanEich @Brian_Sipple and
I don't understand by what metric Western Civilization has been a continuous line but stops now.
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Replying to @wycats @Brian_Sipple and
Who said "stops"? When you run out of strawmen get back to me.
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We're on Twitter. I'm just trying to understand the argument. What's the definition of "Western Civilization" that's declining?
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Replying to @wycats @Brian_Sipple and
Something that reached a peak around the 1970s, w/ moon missions, mass market comfort that defused workers' revolution, bell bottoms, Disco.
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That's circular. You're saying it peaked in the 70s, now defining as "thing that peaked in the 70s"
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich
Yehuda, the concept of “Western Civ peaking in the 70s” should not be difficult to grasp (even if you disagree)!
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I was just trying to get a definition of "Western Civilization" so I can understand the argument.
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