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SpaceManNabs

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.

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You should read up on genes vs environment vs outcome. Make sure to include twin studies in your research.

I 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.

I'm bailing out of this discussion right now. Sorry. I just don't have this energy/time to spare at the moment.

No 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.

As do I, but with mythicists.

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