From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 14:14:28 MDT
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> In many poor towns you can't get out of town.
It's a question of drive. You can get out of anything anywhere, if you're
sufficiently motivated. Of course most people don't realize that (or
realize it too late), or just naturally lack motivation.
> As Rafal pointed out, nutrition often plays an important role.
Why are hillbillies so dumb? Is it because of intercousin marriages? Is it
because of Joe-Bob had too much gumbo as a kid? Puh-leeze.
I think we can safely discount the nutritional hypothesis at this day and
age. The only place this could happen is hardcore vegan kids. The
brain-drain/inbreeding combo is imo merely a footnote (though I'm quite
ready to buy the hypothesis, if presented with compelling evidence).
What I think it mostly is: being raised in an insufficiently
rich/competitive environment.
> It isn't a pretty picture. Quite a bit different from Spike searching
> for Mersenne Primes sitting in the middle of "classic" American suburbia.
What's the transhumanist way of fixing the world? (Preferably, without
standing up from the couch, and making one's hands dirty).
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