[ExI] ai in education

[Kelly Anderson]

The studies that show that Jew, asian boost generally also show blacks
to be lower than average. So you have to be very careful pulling on
those particular discredited strings, lest you bring the mountain down
upon the head of Muhammed, cursed be his name.

I've honestly never seen any of these sorts of pseudo studies applied
to Muslim populations, by the way, and they have to have some pretty
serious inherited stupidity in that part of the world from the
shenanigans of the last 8 centuries or so. The Muslims were
collectively pretty smart before that, inventing Arabic numerals, zero
and  preserving much of the wisdom of the ancients. But somewhere
along the line, the mullah's chased off the scientists.

Speaking of the wisdom of the ancients, I haven't heard a whole lot
from the Herculaneum scrolls in the last few months. Researching it,
it appears that the slowdown has nothing to do with the AI part, but
the other things in the pipeline from charcoal chunk to translated
wisdom in a book.

As for the Jews, they have had the advantage for much of civilization
to be the only party willing to lend money and charge interest, which
is a helpful thing to do. This has put them into an abundance mindset
longer than the rest of us, which is helpful. I don't think it's an IQ
thing at all.

-Kelly


-Kelly

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> >...Jews and nuclear weapons, Jews are demonstrably smarter than average by half a standard deviation, about 7-8 IQ points.  ... Keith
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> 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.
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> 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.
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