On: Quantum winter is coming

[logifail]

> - People with money/power are not much better than average

I think it's way worse than that, the only things that people with money/power are better at ... is getting / hanging on to money and/or power.

They're not better at anything apart from that, by any objective measure.

[stephc_int13 → logifail]

From my experience, people with higher social status (and thus money/power) tend on average to be somewhat smarter, but not by a large margin.

[SQueeeeeL → stephc_int13]

A lot of that is correlated with more recreational time, better family lives (probably no one in jail), and higher quality education. This is the same logic the French aristocrats used to justify the oppression of the peasants, reading novels made them "better"