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[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

The dirty secret that confounds all modern attempts at improving outcomes by social engineering is that the low-IQ, the poor, and the badly behaved now pretty much coincide, statistically speaking.

Why? Because free markets and meritocracy mine the virtuous poor for people who can be productive and useful; they uplift and become, at the least, petits-bourgeoises (and tend to marry each other rather than other bottom-quintilers). Which is an excellent thing, but...

...it means your bottom quintile loses those people. Its average IQ drops. Its average time preference goes up. Its propensity to criminality actually rises.

Now run this effect over several generations. Your civilization gets wealthier and more successful because it's using its human capital optimally. But your bottom quintile gets...worse.

The US is the wealthiest society in the world, with the longest history of meritocratic idealism. The idealism produced the wealth, of course, but it also means we were the first to mine out our deserving poor. I estimate that it happened around 1970 when the last pockets of dirt-floor poverty in Appalachia were cleaned out.

This effect also means that all policy interventions intended to better the lives and prospects of the bottom quintile have decreasing returns over time. Their problems become progressively more intractable and more genetically loaded

The bitter paradox - for which I do not have an answer, only a clear view of the problem - is that a meritocratic society inexorably produces increasing stratification long fault lines defined by innate traits like IQ.

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@kitten_beloved @BecomingCritter And what no one is realizing is Najya is performing exactly like a middling intellect in the modern paradigm. A/B's in the soft courses and being drug across the finish line in math with tutors.

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@janellybean1019 @BlakeSNeff Unless it's a religious school? It's called Nampa CHRISTIAN.

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@CptAncapistan And not just the statists it is also annoying how hard it is for self-described libertarians to respond well.

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@wil_da_beast630 Because people want AI to kill the "really really really bad" people. The military certainly doesn't want AI that won't kill people. If you don't do it then the really really really bad people will have their AI kill you.

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@tracewoodgrains @helenlewis Surrogacy regulations probably correlate with red/blue but Idaho is one of the national centers for surrogacy.

https://t.co/xx7LkIBPu6

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@AlexanderLotus @MakerBurns @CaudilloXIV Georg and Elsa aren't married.

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@Empty_America Public lands are a massive subsidy for very few people just to look at. Having greatly availed myself of that subsidy, I could live with public ownership to ensure restoration after commercial exploitation, but the land should be completely open to commercial exploitation.

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https://t.co/vBgpx4SbsS

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@awillems9 @VisualCap Agree. This feels about right for a "family". Not luxurious but comfortable on a budget.

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@ForeskinStolen @nkreu113r Pandas won't blink at 60k rows. He'll excel will get it done most of the time.

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@shagbark_hick Main growth in Idaho is in the Treasure Valley (Boise) which generally does not have hard winters.

[Grant @GrantBruner]

"liberals overestimated how much they were dehumanized, conservatives underestimated how much they were dehumanized."

https://t.co/PPFk5HR05n

"liberals showed three times more bias than conservatives."

https://t.co/nITEPN48EU

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@Jason @brionhickey Jesus said to use state violence against others to force them to follow your concept of charity? Christian Nationalist in the wild.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

America is extremely rich.

In terms of household final consumption per capita, every state is richer than every foreign country.

Sub in anyone, and they'd be in 51st place. In fact, plenty would even be behind American territories like Puerto Rico.

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@BlessedCarbon It was his sister posting that let people find him:

https://t.co/f7iX6LEic0

[Faucet @SkkrSKktt]

Jordan Salinas is the fearless patriot of the twin falls shooting. $JORDAN

This will go insane once it goes on the news, then trump, elon and everyone will start blowing up. Only the beginning.

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@Warlizard @DLoesch Note, he didn't get shot. He went out horseback riding with his gf after the interview.
https://t.co/GMnjhW2wCC

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@GrantSlatton I feel like that's why it's called populism.

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@grizzy_mint @UtahFlatRanger @sarahadams Likely FN Five-Seven:

https://t.co/1A4uGJHwQL