pjeby comments on Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 10 January 2010 04:25:00AM 6 points [-]

A small dose of outside view shows that it's all nonsense. The idea of evil terrorist or criminal mastermind is based on nothing - such people don't exist. Virtually all terrorists and criminals are idiots, and neither are interested in maximizing destruction.

See everything Schneier has ever written about it if you need data confirming what I just said.

Comment author: pjeby 10 January 2010 07:10:08PM 5 points [-]

Virtually all terrorists and criminals are idiots, and neither are interested in maximizing destruction.

What about the recent reports of Muslim terrorists being (degreed) engineers in disproportionate numbers? While there's some suggestion of an economic/cultural explanation, it does indicate that at least some terrorists are people who were at least able to get engineering degrees.