Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016

elharo

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:

Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.
Post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:

Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.
Post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

First, 42 million includes children for who I doubt there is a public criteria we can agree on as proxy for intelligence. Second, I'm not sure IQ > 130 is .13%. Wikipedia suggests 1%.

Since those cut in opposite directions, let's pretend they wash out. I am comfortable asserting there are more than 60k black folks in the set of:

senior military officers (colonel or greater)
highly successful national public intellectuals (eg Powell, Coates, Rice)
highly successful lawyers (Clarence Thomas is top 1% of lawyers)
highly successful MDs & research PhDs (eg Neil DeGrasse Tyson).
highly successful media/entertainment personalities (Sean "Diddy" Combs, Oprah, etc).
highly successful technocrats (mayors / police chiefs / school superintendent in large metro areas)

highly successful MDs & research PhDs (eg Neil DeGrasse Tyson).

As discussed elsewhere in this thread, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is "media science personality" not a successful researcher.

highly successful technocrats (mayors / police chiefs / school superintendent in large metro areas)

It doesn't take that much intelligence to be elected Mayor. Especially if your black in a majority black city and the electorate votes on tribal solidarity. Hence a few infamous cases, like Mayor Marion Barry of DC.

0Lumifer10y

The tail above three standard deviations for a normal distribution constitutes about 0.13% of the population. Media/entertainment personalities can be oh so very dumb :-) Otherwise, I am doubting your assertion. Do you have data?

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