I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The intellectshual world is populated by a collection of people who are much better at explaining than understanding.

I can understand someone saying "listen, I love strangers but I am more comfortable w/my nationality, shared values" (homophily) or "neighbors get along better than rommates" (fractal localism). But making "others" genetically "inferior" using IQ "science" is quite sinister.

""Science and reason is the best we have" is a statement that is both pseudoscientific & irrational. It conflates science and scientism. Science is rigorous, makes no claims outside a v. narrow domain. "Tradition, risk management, and Skin in the Game is the best we have"." -