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VoiceOfRa comments on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 12 May 2015 04:43:49AM -1 points [-]

Like racism. Maybe there's an evil genie out of its bottle that causes epidemics of crime and violence and the police are stuck in a bad incentive gradient. Or maybe someone in power is, deep down, just as much a hateful jerk as your average YouTube commenter, and the ever-so-tragic Unavoidable Genie Problems are actually just that one hateful jerk forcing his hateful-jerk policies on whole groups of people.

Or maybe populations with low IQ's are simply more prone to violence. Especially, when there's a reluctance to punish them the same way as high IQ people for fear of being "racist".

Comment author: [deleted] 15 May 2015 12:21:13PM *  0 points [-]

And then the American Irish replaced their hardware from low-IQ to high-IQ in a course of 150 years. Wait, no, looks more like a software change: http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_2_a2.html

Comment author: Lumifer 15 May 2015 03:05:25PM 1 point [-]

Your link says nothing about IQ. There are many ways to stop being poor other than raising your IQ.