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and little opportunity to go to college Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials.
by vox_mollis 11y ago
and little opportunity to go to college
Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials.
I'm not talking about the 135 IQ kid who grows up in a shack in Appalachia, because that's a situation that is at least theoretically addressable.
I'm talking about the ~40% of the population who, even if we addressed the problems of parenting, would still be completely left behind by policies that ignore the realities and limitations of the largely biologically determined working memory capacity and abstract thinking ability. THIS is the intractable problem, short of living in GATTACA.
- gedy 11y agoFair enough, though 40% seems a pretty broad swath tbh - honestly a lot SV work is not brainiac academic CS work, it's UI making, etc.
- pc86 11y agos/a lot/most/g
- Apocryphon 11y agoAren't there plenty of environmental factors that impact IQ as well? Maybe we should work on addressing those factors first.
- emodendroket 11y ago> Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials. And also factors that have nothing to do with capability like how much you have in common with the other employees at startups.