Re: Pinker's How the Mind Works + The Blank Slate

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 13:30:59 MDT


Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> ### I wonder if mentioning this book will earn you accusations of being a
> barbarian, racist, or maybe even a Nazi. After all, Pinker reiterates the
> notion universally accepted by psychologists, that the variation in
> intelligence is predominantly determined by genetics

Not that I noticed. Are you sure you're not confusing Pinker's
evolutionary psychology with the quite separate discipline of behavioral
genetics?

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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