"It is that mix of insecurity, a sense of the brittleness of one’s hold on wealth, power, privileges, combined with the reality of great wealth and power, that breeds a mix of aggressiveness and perceived embattlement."
I guess I don't consider it constricting in the way @sama is describing that American norms cause us to be more skittish about starting certain kinds of companies ("designer babies") and don't see it as evidence that "wow! China is freer than SV!"
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You could probably also talk more openly about building software to help the government subvert elections, for instance.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Many in seats of power here deny existence of alleles associated with intelligence. Crazy unscientific, right? Others less situated object to embryo experimentation. Nutty but true. China doesn’t scruple. (They did ban head transplants recently, though.)
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I don't get the sense that SV is afraid to disrupt in this sense. 23andMe exists, which was initially perceived as out of bounds. The idea that intelligence has some genetic component shouldn't be heretical, but people overrotate on IQ and its consequences big time.
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