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Crownless_Prince comments on Genetic "Nature" is cultural too - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 March 2016 02:33PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 March 2016 10:21:24AM 0 points [-]

Yes, but this means that a lot of very rich people are very incorrect as to what is important for their wealth. Which is possible. But you have to posit a lot people being in error about things they should know about, for the heavy-hereditibility picture to fit.

Comment author: Crownless_Prince 22 March 2016 12:05:14AM 2 points [-]

Yes, but this means that a lot of very rich people are very incorrect as to what is important for their wealth.

They know about the factors they can control. After all, those are the ones they actually focus on.