[ExI] ai in education

[spike at rainier66.com]

>...Jews and nuclear weapons, Jews are demonstrably smarter than average by half a standard deviation, about 7-8 IQ points.  ... Keith


Ja.  I don't think it should be all that controversial: the jews were early to figure out selective breeding.  They wrote about it in their ancient texts, with regard to Jacob, son of Isaac, the grandson of Abraham, the ancestor of all the jews.  In Genesis 30: 37-43, the story was that Jacob took poplar branches and cut notches in them, so that the ewes would see the spotted branches while the rams mounted them, causing them to be more likely to produce spotted lambs.  They didn't get that it makes no difference what the ewe was viewing at the time, only that he may have been breeding the stronger beasts, and recognizing there was a specific period of fertility.  He took advantage and built his flocks.

If one has ever played Civilization, one recognizes that technologies build upon each other.  The jews were early masters of reading and writing.  This resulted in their inventing a wildly complicated religion.  That may have included gematria from way back, which may have emphasized the value of math in the rabbis and their followers.  The eastern European jews had the necessary math skills already in place when the nuke scientists faced the very difficult problem of how to assemble a critical mass of plutonium quickly enough to cause it to detonate.  That's a hell of a complicated problem.  They were there, with the math.  Perhaps all that traces back to Jacob and his sheep.

spike