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johnlawrenceaspden comments on Constructing fictional eugenics (LW edition) - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 October 2012 12:41AM

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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 29 October 2012 06:09:50PM 15 points [-]

This sounds a bit like a university.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 October 2012 01:10:25PM 8 points [-]

Which is why we have the dysgenic trend of college degrees having a strong negative impact on female fertility.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 October 2012 11:14:19AM *  0 points [-]

Some people do get laid in college, even if that's probably rarer than elsewhere. Also, it's not dumb people who go there.

Comment author: Randy_M 30 October 2012 04:22:15PM 1 point [-]

Rarer than elsewhere? That's not my impression, at least of universities with co-ed dorms, which is probably the main and critical difference between them and Viliam's Monastaries.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 October 2012 08:11:34PM *  1 point [-]

I seem to recall statistics according to which the percentage of graduate students in certain faculties who are virgins was two-digits, whereas the percentage of twenty-year-olds in the general population in the same country who are virgins was less than 5%.