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This article interviews Geoffrey Miller. He wrote an article around the same time here: https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013 https://www.edge.org/responses/q20
by santoriv 9y ago
This article interviews Geoffrey Miller.
He wrote an article around the same time here: https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013 https://www.edge.org/responses/q2013
Here is a response to that article:
https://eastasiastudent.net/china/edge-org-chinese-eugenics-rubbish/ https://eastasiastudent.net/china/edge-org-chinese-eugenics-...
TLDR; The view promoted by this article is probably only supported by a single person(Geoffrey Miller) and is highly speculative.
- moises_silva 9y agoI know this enters the realm of character assassination, but, after reading the article I also was curious who Geoffrey Miller is. Found a wikipedia article which contains one of his twitter posts: "Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth." [0] I know that doesn't invalidate his arguments and you can't judge a whole person by something they posted on twitter, but man, I'm disappointed this is the kind of person whose genes are considered so valuable to replicate. In our efforts to optimize for intelligence we may leave so many other good traits behind. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/how-twitter-schooled-nyu-professor-about-fat-shaming/313728/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/how-twi...