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satt comments on SRG 4: Biological Cognition, BCIs, Organizations - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: satt 10 October 2014 02:12:37AM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure we do consistently try to improve these things. Nutrition, yes. But lead exposure got appreciably worse between WWI and 1970-1975, at least in the UK & US, and shrinking families is a manifestation of the demographic transition, which is only semi-intentional.