Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
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And it is heritable.
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I'm not arguing that the measure isn't accurate.
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I'm arguing that the measure doesn't contain the information that people take it to contain.
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And so they extrapolate from it in ways that are unjustified.
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Yep. 'Cause
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doesn't mean that we can't say illiteracy.
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would have been highly heritable by the same measure.
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would be
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Well my point is
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We know that developmental environment has an implication for what cognitive skills develop.
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So
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Your model in which getting lucky, a lucky collection of genes that contribute to
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cognitive capacity with no known relationship to a deficit, you know, without a trade off relationship.
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My point is, absent the trade off relationship, I would expect all of those genes that you think John von Neumann possessed to go to fixation in the human population because they contribute no matter w what role you play in the population.
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Unlike, let's say, extremely long arms.
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Which are great if you're a swimmer and a hindrance if you're a carpenter.
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Um
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But I've already told you I accept that genetic differences that can give you elevated intelligence are consistent.
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developmental differences.
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Okay.
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