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>hamas loads gaza with nerve gas and threatens to murder everyone in the city unless the entire country of israel walks into the sea how could israel do that to those poor palestinians its inhumane

ivy league grads are 0.5% of the population and more than 12 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs, 32 percent of all New York Times journalists, and 13 percent of the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the population. everyone assumes it's the teaching. it isn't. an economics professor at Dartmouth said he doesn't think there's a big difference between Ivy Plus professors and professors at other universities. i went to columbia. the headline professors mostly handed class off to TAs. everyone's second guess is the network. also wrong on the timing. salary gaps between ivy and non-ivy grads widen over the career, not at graduation, which is exactly when prestige should matter most. the real driver is the opportunity to learn how to succeed in an environment filled with the world's most talented and ambitious people. concentration of drive. you absorb the bar by sitting next to it.

This OKC edit is crazy 😭

Yeah your second point is a tricky one--a lot of people aren't psychologically equipped to maintain healthy expectations while manipulating the probabilistic distribution of outcomes. You should ideally be able to love your kids unconditionally if you want to go this route, and I think that's easier said than done. I can say "I simply want the best possible expected outcomes, and I will accept whatever is realized"...but a lot of even mentally strong people simply can't do this! I think we're going to see a ton of journalistic pieces ~10-30 years from now on parents struggling to deal with the left tail of these conditional distributions. Somehow "relatively bad outcome after you tried to shift the distribution" might be harder for most than "bad outcome 'naturally'".

I don't think most people understand that this embryo is probably not going to become a person with a +3 SD IQ We need to mull the burdens we risk putting on our children by genome shopping like this. This is a person who belongs to him or herself, not a pet, not a status object

A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile

It's almost impossible to view these people as anything other than insecure downwardly-mobile losers afraid of competition from more talented immigrants.

A Georgia handyman swapped his car for a pink Barbie toy car to beat rising gas prices. Mali Hightower pulled a broken Power Wheels Dream Camper out of the trash and installed a small gas engine from a power washer to give him an alternative to speed around town in instead of his usual mode of transportation. His 1996 Mercedes-Benz convertible typically costs about $90 to fill. The tiny pink vehicle tops out around 35 mph and is now turning heads everywhere he goes as Americans search for cheaper ways to get around.

OMG 😆