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And how many of them are radical religious nutjobs? I think it is plausible that "can spend decades learning a scientific craft" and "wants to kill everyone on
by laverya 3y ago
And how many of them are radical religious nutjobs? I think it is plausible that "can spend decades learning a scientific craft" and "wants to kill everyone on the planet" are mutually exclusive personality traits.
- shoubidouwah 3y agothere is no OR gates in biology, only mutable distributions. the probability might be small for the two traits to appear, the overlap will occur with some frequency over billions of people. Also, and more importantly, the first condition is pretty heavily biological, the second is more of a social consequence. Just take a genius, give him internet and a healthy dollop of trauma, push the mysanthropism to 11 and watch the fireworks.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWasn't there a study that showed there are disproportionally many engineers among the more violent "radical religious nutjobs"? The hypothesis I heard for this was that STEM people are used to complex arguments and more abstract reasoning, so while they may be harder to initially convince, when they do get convinced, they're more likely to follow the new beliefs to their logical conclusions...