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The House Impeached Trump, BTW.

I disagree with your view of what constitutes intelligence. I think you're pigeon-holing human intelligence into too simple a model to be in any way meaningful or useful.
Intelligence is...

No, I'm saying that a high score is probably indicative of the type of intelligence the test was testing for, but a low score could indicate a wide range of things, most of them not related to the...

They measure intelligence and a ton of other things.
The other things dominate unless the person taking the test is one whom the test is biased toward.


Are you saying there's no cultural bias...

"Chess"

Then you'll be happy to know that I'm functionally retarded.

"Intelligence" isn't a well-defined term.

Social intelligence is useful to politicians.
Logical intelligence is useful to scientists.
Physical intelligence is useful to athletes and musicians....

TL;DR: IQ tests are stupid, pointless, hopelessly flawed, and support elitism in their existence.

There's no meaningful way to measure how smart someone is in a vacuum. We can only compare how...

DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service

It's basically an internet attack where a server is overloaded with access requests, shutting it down.

Like if your phone keeps ringing, but every time you...

The only thing surprising about that video was Boris's hair looked roughly the way a normal person's hair normally looks.

So... the House is almost certainly going to impeach Trump.
So far, they're still pushing the Ukraine scandal, but the more the White House refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the more...

I agree, and my hypothetical about hairdressers and telephone sanitizers is silly, but gets at a deeper point.

In this hypothetical near-doomsday scenario:
If there aren't enough people to...

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I agree that it will take more than 1 catastrophic event to cause something similar to the Dark Ages again. A "nearby" supernova could do a lot. Maybe...

"If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
-Isaac Newton (probably a paraphrase or otherwise apocryphal)

Take away those giants' shoulders (destroy...

Be careful with societal knowledge, though. It's not like personal knowledge. Not everyone in the society knows all the pertinent societal lessons that they may need to keep safe. I.e. not...

A person can learn. "The people" can't.
For every person that learns, another ignorant baby is born knowing nothing.

In fact, there are more babies born than (supposedly) learned people dying,...

That frames the decision point pretty well.
Both have flaws, and this makes a relatively direct comparison of the flaws in these 2 systems.


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"Strong convictions loosely held" is an interesting position to support. I see pros and cons. I need to think on it a while.

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Direct vs. representative democracy

Different forms of gov't...

What makes it a little difficult is that while you acknowledge you aren't an expert, you tend to use expert language.

I'm not judging or telling you how to behave. It's just that for me, when you...

As usual, I agree with all you've said.

At the time of that post, I was under the misunderstanding that it was a legally binding referendum, when it wasn't.
That changes my support thereof. ...

The average 16 yo will vote Mrs. Tiddies into any office she runs for, regardless of qualifications.
I'm not sure that's the group we want making the big decisions.

18 yo's are not too much...

The problem with that is it inevitably leads to the disenfranchisement of the constituency.

Put IQ tests as a requirement to get a voter registration and you just discriminated against people who...

Sounds like poop has no faith in or love for a direct democracy. Poop prefers a republic, or representative democracy.

Sounds like, at least in the abstract, ong believes that all democracy is...

It was a tangent, but I quoted the right quote.

I lament the fact that it's all too easy to find an echo chamber and all too hard to find an intelligent discussion between people who disagree...

Many have made excellent points on both sides of this in the recent posts, but I don't think this one's gotten the credit it deserves.

There can be reasons to go against this, but I don't recall...

*sigh*

I try to pay attention to both sides, but it's hard to find intelligent voices on either side.
It doesn't help that my voice is not very intelligent on political topics, and so I'm...