I think the median position in rationalist circles is probably the following: There’s no reason to care about heritable IQ gaps, and good reason to not publicly discuss them. E.g., in this comment.
If one was to survey all the frontpage articles on Lesswrong over the last 6⁄9 months, how many turn on the heritable IQ gap? Very few, as far as I can tell.
Showing I am wrong in this assessment (e.g., in a short post collecting 4-5 highly upvoted posts which shows how omitting heritable IQ from their world model has caused confusion or mistake), is more likely to succeed than introducing it as a new current of debate.
Thanks, good comment. The quick low-effort version that doesn’t require actually writing the posts is that without taking heritable IQ into account, I think you will be confused about:
Why Israel is so good at defending itself even against far larger countries surrounding it (and the last few centuries of Jewish history more generally).
Why the growth curves for East Asia and Africa looked so different over the last century.
This framing is helpful.
I think the median position in rationalist circles is probably the following: There’s no reason to care about heritable IQ gaps, and good reason to not publicly discuss them. E.g., in this comment.
If one was to survey all the frontpage articles on Lesswrong over the last 6⁄9 months, how many turn on the heritable IQ gap? Very few, as far as I can tell.
Showing I am wrong in this assessment (e.g., in a short post collecting 4-5 highly upvoted posts which shows how omitting heritable IQ from their world model has caused confusion or mistake), is more likely to succeed than introducing it as a new current of debate.
Thanks, good comment. The quick low-effort version that doesn’t require actually writing the posts is that without taking heritable IQ into account, I think you will be confused about:
Various ways in which post-apartheid South Africa is a bad place to live.
Why so many countries have market-dominant minorities.
Why Israel is so good at defending itself even against far larger countries surrounding it (and the last few centuries of Jewish history more generally).
Why the growth curves for East Asia and Africa looked so different over the last century.