@HarrisPartners Life must be hard as a midwit intellectual. Waking up in the middle of the night. Sweating trembling. Murmuring shaking your wife’s boy friend awake “the wealth effect…. I think the wealth effect is in the house”.
@HarrisPartners Yes voters are dumb whereas you are a very smart intellectual who believes in the wealth effect - a mysterious goblin that’s responsible for recessions if property prices go down. Not the inevitable credit contraction following a period of rapid imprudent growth. A literal goblin
@matterasmachine@mauddweeb@Nymdok Yeah teaching dim kids to love mathematics might be an order of magnitude harder than increasing their iq by 5 points for a few months.
@DanRosiak Yup you’re right. People who aren’t as good as Tao are just lazy degenerate people who do other things with their time. Nobody other than Tao and other top researchers work 16 hours a day. I also find it interesting that you don’t have to work as hard if you make a blanket.
@kool79165@SashaGusevPosts I read op like three times before accepting he was saying what he was saying. The sheer audacity of totally and forcibly breaking the connection between ability and education and then claiming Murray’s conclusion was at fault. Gaslighting that’d make Stalin blush.
@dannolan AMA is the enemy. It’s a medieval guild that survives because people venerate doctors. People need to understand that only about 5-10% of doctors exercise any critical judgment. Everyone else is just following guidelines set by researchers - very little clinical skills required.
@dannolan What a doctor does is most often incredibly trivial. The politically correct move is to push for nurse practitioners as first contact medics while driving existing gps into more specialised roles. AMA can’t oppose this if played right. Need to also regulate access to medicine.
@gabriel1 It’s hard to compete with things like chess, abstract mathematics or philosophy or even extremely silly things like speed running. Competition and abstraction are two very difficult things the real world has to compete against. Tech idealism really is an incredible thing