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I DESPISE THAT QUOTE. Nobody is born anything. Nobody is born a slave, a criminal, a prodigy, a prophet, an athlete, an intellectual, an iconoclast, etc.. Ev
by SpaceManNabs 3y ago
I DESPISE THAT QUOTE.
Nobody is born anything.
Nobody is born a slave, a criminal, a prodigy, a prophet, an athlete, an intellectual, an iconoclast, etc..
Every moment a person is born is an opportunity for us to be surpassed or ashamed.
What a disgusting gatekeeping statement.
The only thing people are born anything as are maybe royalty, which is an entirely different disgusting enterprise.
Maybe I am channeling too much OnePiece 1096.
- tpmx 3y agoYou should read up on genes vs environment vs outcome. Make sure to include twin studies in your research.
- SpaceManNabs 3y agoI have. Identical twins separated at birth can have vastly separate outcomes. Nurture >>> nature pretty definitively. Next thing I notice, someone is gonna post a gwern style response on IQ ridiculousness.
- tpmx 3y agoI'm bailing out of this discussion right now. Sorry. I just don't have this energy/time to spare at the moment.
- SpaceManNabs 3y agoNo need to apologize. I do a terrible job at ignoring IQ rationalists. Guess it balances out because IQ rationalists do a great job ignoring well-substantiated data from biologists. How cursed it must to be so growth oriented with a fixed mindset.
- tpmx 3y agoAs do I, but with mythicists.