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> Perhaps they’ll make suitable service workers, but future physicists these are not. How do you know that?
by t-3 4y ago
> Perhaps they’ll make suitable service workers, but future physicists these are not.
How do you know that?
- cltby 4y ago
- t-3 4y agoNo, they have not. They've been convicted of crimes. Nothing about their intellectual ability or "capacity for cruelty or sadism" can be inferred from that.
- boeingUH60 4y agoCruelty/Sadism and intellectual prowess aren't mutually exclusive. From my high school days...I remember some really smart people who were atrocious bullies, and I mean extreme bullies.
- inglor_cz 4y agoFamously, Göring scored 138 and another prominent Nazi, Arthur Seyß-Inquart, 141 on their IQ tests when incarcerated in Nuremberg. Both were sentenced to death later. That said, their case shows the principle that high-IQ psychopathic people tend not to end up among common criminals. They find other, legal or "legal" (as in "it was legal in Nazi Germany") ways to satisfy their urges.
- throwaway5959 4y agoSee also: CEOs and politicians in general
- jen20 4y agoPerfect for software middle management then eh? Anyway, what about Hans Reiser? A convicted murderer, but one who could build an entire file system.