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Nonsense. By 2007 it was already a settled matter. There had been decades of attempts to tease out environmental influences. We’d seen that no amount of education funding, government employment, government schools, adoption by white parents, or any other way of approaching the matter would boost black test scores close to whites’ in America. Nor could blacks find a way themselves to do it, not in any locality. It was also clear by that time that serious environmental influences on individuals were small relative to the observed performance differences between blacks and whites, which meant the theory that its environment would imply insane levels of deprivation that weren’t happening. Social scientists had already given up.

th asserts “If 500 people submit talks and 394 are men, then ~79% will likely be by men.”

I didn’t misunderstand. That is simply nonsense.

The FTC doesn’t have that power.

No, of course not, if your military doesn’t develop tech faster than the competition then you lose.

Why don’t you complain about Facebook and YouTube doing this?

No, political ideology is genetic.

He and Buffett (among many others) have often talked about these misaligned incentives in the past. He is not sharing any novel insight here.

How much more money do engineers or engineering firms make by designing dams that fail and boats that sink?

Banks are a specific situation where employees can get one-sided rewards for increasing exposure to tail risks with other people’s money. It’s to avoid misaligned incentives with delayed (by years) feedback.

Those are powered on when the laptop is on.

East Asia is also depopulating.

You don’t. It’s one choice in the electricity market.

Being homeless is better when there’s less crime.