Prismattic comments on [SEQ RERUN] Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Prismattic 10 October 2011 05:44:32AM 0 points [-]

Upvoted for bringing the Langford story to my attention; I was not aware of it.

I continue to believe my explanation accurately describes the approach of a significant proportion of highly educated individuals expressing anti-racial differences views, whether or not those individuals are even aware of the general concept of mindkilling.

Comment author: Lapsed_Lurker 10 October 2011 07:25:10PM 1 point [-]

This story: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm ?

There's a similar plotline in one of the Star Trek episodes with the Borg, where (IIRC) they discuss the morality of crashing all the Borg's minds with some bug they've found in their information processing, decide not to, and then discover they already sort of did that by accident....

Comment author: Prismattic 10 October 2011 08:23:30PM 1 point [-]

That's the one I had in mind, yes.