Beyond the usual tripe, a compassionate but commonsensical piece on the topic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch...le/485618/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arch...le/485618/
Quote: (06-18-2016 11:18 AM)stugatz Wrote:
I read that last night before bed - great article. Some people don't have an IQ of 150, and they need to be in careers that better suit them.
It stops short of connecting it to the problem of higher education today. That was originally meant for intelligent, thinking people, and no wonder academia is nothing but an indoctrination camp nowadays.
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:16 AM)MMX2010 Wrote:
On the one hand, we have spent great gobs of money trying to uplift these populations, with such depressively tepid results that I can totally side with a "No longer committed..." argument. But, on the other hand, if we're no longer committed, what are we supposed to do with our low-IQ individuals, (who, by definition, will be at least 40% of us, if not 65% of us!)?
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:21 PM)Surreyman Wrote:
I would bet that as many as half of RVF college-educated users do not need/use their degrees.
Quote: (06-19-2016 08:49 AM)Speculation Wrote:
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:16 AM)MMX2010 Wrote:
On the one hand, we have spent great gobs of money trying to uplift these populations, with such depressively tepid results that I can totally side with a "No longer committed..." argument. But, on the other hand, if we're no longer committed, what are we supposed to do with our low-IQ individuals, (who, by definition, will be at least 40% of us, if not 65% of us!)?
This ties in nicely with the arguments for and against Universal Basic Income.
One of the arguments is that automation is removing the jobs that could be filled by the less intelligent. These people can't participate in the new 'knowledge economy' except in make-work roles such as we see bloating the public sector. If we don't want riots then we need to provide for these people even though they aren't useful to the economy.
Its all quite interesting and its a problem that will need to be solved.
Quote: (06-20-2016 11:00 AM)Kid Twist Wrote:
Will there be a breakaway republic created that has lots of generally intelligent people with the use of robots as the "help" for lack of a better term? Basically, something that gets away from the requirement to import people who are different from the main group and thus disrupt the whole, eventually?
Quote: (06-20-2016 10:28 AM)Dalaran1991 Wrote:
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:21 PM)Surreyman Wrote:
I would bet that as many as half of RVF college-educated users do not need/use their degrees.
I was an honor student in a top-30 liberal arts college of the country. Still waiting for the day when I need to use ANY knowledge I learned in college that I couldn't learn by myself.
Shit, Paracelsus probably knows more than all the professors in my school combined.
College was more of a developmental phase, a sex camp and a huge waste of time.
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:16 AM)MMX2010 Wrote:
But, on the other hand, if we're no longer committed, what are we supposed to do with our low-IQ individuals, (who, by definition, will be at least 40% of us, if not 65% of us!)?
Quote: (06-23-2016 04:55 AM)MMX2010 Wrote:
KidTwist,
High IQ, in my opinion is 130+ (about plus 1.5 SD above the mean).
"Generally intelligent", to use your term, would be defined by me as 115+. But that would be only about 40% of people.
Could there be a breakaway nation of the smartest 40%? That's more plausible than High IQ, but I doubt it because there's some research correlating IQ with Openness to new experience. (If you don't know that the Big Five Personality Traits are, Google them.) This openness prevents people from wanting to "isolate" low IQ people, especially when IQ "isn't really anyone's fault".
Quote: (06-26-2016 03:28 AM)Genghis Khan Wrote:
My understanding was that Opennesss and IQ were separate traits. Is that not what Geoffrey Miller meant when he called the Big Five and intelligence the Central Six personality traits? Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the idea of the Big Five/Central Six that they are independent traits?
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:31 PM)Laner Wrote:Don't know if I'd bet on it. Do they talk about this in Canada?
Nothing happens instantly. We are a generation along since Smart = Geek, Dumb = Cool, and things are changing. Lets hope this trend continues.
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:16 AM)MMX2010 Wrote:1. There's a lot of dumb white trash in the world. It's not limited to black and hispanic.
I'm reminded of many Vox Day articles, (too many to cite), which coalesce into the question, "As a society whose entire economic future requires us to maintain an average IQ of 115, how committed are we really to the education of low-IQ individuals, who are mostly Black and Hispanic?"
On the one hand, we have spent great gobs of money trying to uplift these populations, with such depressively tepid results that I can totally side with a "No longer committed..." argument. But, on the other hand, if we're no longer committed, what are we supposed to do with our low-IQ individuals, (who, by definition, will be at least 40% of us, if not 65% of us!)?
Quote: (06-27-2016 02:46 AM)porscheguy Wrote:
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:31 PM)Laner Wrote:Don't know if I'd bet on it. Do they talk about this in Canada?
Nothing happens instantly. We are a generation along since Smart = Geek, Dumb = Cool, and things are changing. Lets hope this trend continues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white
Quote: (06-27-2016 10:42 AM)Laner Wrote:
Quote: (06-27-2016 02:46 AM)porscheguy Wrote:
Quote: (06-18-2016 12:31 PM)Laner Wrote:Don't know if I'd bet on it. Do they talk about this in Canada?
Nothing happens instantly. We are a generation along since Smart = Geek, Dumb = Cool, and things are changing. Lets hope this trend continues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white
I have never heard it discussed, but that doesn't mean shit.
It sounds a lot like 'acting white' means improving ones station in life, getting educated, having other people as friends besides your own skin colour.
If this is the case, then a good majority of people I know here are acting white. The closest to this conversation came up with me and a good friend (Black Jamaican Canadian) who asked me if my father ever was called an "Uncle Tom". I never heard this before so he explained.
The conversation then turned to buzzwords: Colonialism, open borders, etc, etc. We are good friends and will argue heatedly. We did not agree with much on this subject as I thought he was selling himself out. He is an entrepreneur, supports three employees and their families, he is married (to a white woman), and spends lots of time at (posh) community centers playing and teaching basketball. All things that I argued were things that BLM/Open borders were actively trying to destroy.
I hope this type of identity politics stays the fuck out of Canada. It would be a waste if my educated non white friends started to work against their own desires due to the same "crab in the bucket" mentality that I witness on Reserves.