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Malcolm Gladwell. He is a very well known author.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell

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@NetRunner: "to try to make sure all men are still being created equally."

"Still?" Don't you mean 'for the first time since the start of civilization?'

"All men are created equal" means equality under the law, not that humans are even remotely equal in abilities and cognitive complexity.


Re: reprogenetics:
It's essentially the same as the term 'genetic engineering,' which liberal circles talk about frequently, generally being highly opposed to human genetic engineering and anything else "unnatural."


Re: "You may need to elaborate on the "liberals oppose genetics" comment -- we like research into genetics"

Liberalism in the 1970s-1990s used to argue IQ etc. had "no genetic basis --not that IQ means anything." Now the anti- human sciences marxist academics who led liberal thought, like Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, are too old or have passed away, so the liberal position seems to have migrated from 0%-5% genetic basis to 50% genetic basis, which is the number I noticed liberal Malcolm Gladwell gave in Outliers. The most recent American Psychological Association consensus statement that I'm aware of gives the number at 75%, so Gladwell's still probably being a little hopeful, but 50% is accurate enough.

However, it's still very common to see liberals claiming human behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, or human intelligence research are meaningless or simply have too high a "yuck factor" to allow for open discussion. That's particularly true if you're dealing with the more interesting areas, which are taboo for liberals:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/03gene.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html

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@KnivesOut. Playing basketball with an nba star is being a man of the people?


The masses love activities in which a ball is moved to some destination or another, and folks who can move balls well are their heroes, rather than people like Malcolm Gladwell or Steve Jobs, so this seems like it's right up their alley.

Intellectual Ventures, the makers of this video, are a group of humankind's greatest badasses solving the world's problems while we sleep.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a fascinating article about them, "In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?"

I think many of the shortcomings of the education system are shortcomings on the part of the academics who design the curriculums. Problem solving in the sense of how to optimally manage our intelligence would be a great thing to teach. Even PhDs don't get taught that, though.

Teaching these areas would be a great start : Cognitive science, decision theory, intelligence research, game theory, behavioral economics, risk management, cognitive bias, and rationalism.

(Wikipedia links on those subjects are here: http://www.videosift.com/video/For-all-my-Athiest-friends-on-The-Sift?loadcomm=1#comment-744091)

I also highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. (People who like reading books on their computer could find the PDF here)

For those curious, the book Llewellyn was referring to is Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. A fascinating and essential read, it's also available on audio book.

Check out the discussion on The Hour:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Malcolm-Gladwell-on-The-Hour

>> ^Payback:
>> ^djhenyo:
I told you to change the title. No upvote until it is so. Also just have to add that I hate the way this guest looks. Can't tell if he is white or black or indian or anything. Way to have an identity ya gay bitch.

Can someone unban djhenyo please? I want to downvote him too!


I wouldn't be surprised if Djhenyo was of Korean background and got frustrated with the topic title. I also feel that if this video had been "Why Blacks Don't Make the Best Scientists" or something like that, it wouldn't have gotten so many upvotes, no matter how gently it was argued in the video. So there's a double standard at play here too. I would love to be proved wrong though. There are probably thousands of videos online that argue that black Americans are culturally incapable of becoming good at many careers. Perhaps we can put them in the Sift and see how they fare? Heck, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have made careers arguing similar views.

>> ^westy:
why is it unsettling ? I don't care if black culture/skin is no longer practiced/disappears any more or less than if white culture skin color no longer existed / was practiced. just shove photographs and writings in a musiim so whatever can be learned from the past can be learned and move on.
Within the next 60 years i think its likely that people will distance themselves from there physical entity of flesh to some existent , maby we will be able to separate ourselves from our body , evan if we are still locked into our bodies i can see a large number of people exsperanceing alot through vertual reality where u interact fully with people in some invented world. its alredy happning now to some exstent with internet chat MMO,s only its just shit at the moment with exstremily limited interactivty and sences.
once we can exist outside of our born bodies race prejudice will seem Evan more absurd.


But let's be realistic. Most Americans would prefer black skin and culture to be eradicated before white skin and culture is eradicated.

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Must have been a Korean pilot.

>> ^enoch:
>> ^calculadoru:
Interesting theory, but I wonder why he didn't mention the Japanese. Their language and society are _exactly_ like he described, and yet they have far fewer crashes.

go ahead and mistake a japanese person for a Korean and see what happens.
go ahead..i dare ya..
just dont be surprised if im walking very briskly in the other direction.
same with mistaking a columbian for a mexican,or belgium with french.
cultural distinctions carry with them a certain pride and this video does not indicate any racism but rather a static social order than in the case of flying a plane can do more damage than good.

But just because they see these small minute differences that they exaggerate and through a form of tribalism, feel superior and offended if they are considered another race/culture, doesn't make them that much different. I can't tell the different between a Laotian and a Viet but they can...and to them the differences could be vast even though many of their culture is very similiar (language,foods,music). Colombians and mexicans? I dated a colombian broad and she was one of the most racist people I know...she hated Mexicans, more than rednecks do. She even disliked Argentinians...I promise you'll be hardpressed to find many differences between those two peoples. The point is, people exaggerate their differences. I dare you to compare me to a Texan...