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Belonging (Part 1: That Bostrom email) - Reflective altruism

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In a break from our scheduled programming, I take a look at an email that broke the internet. Warning: contains redacted slurs, unrepentant racism, sexism and profanity.

Belonging (Part 1: That Bostrom email) - Reflective altruism Skip to content Belonging (Part 1: That Bostrom email) Take for example the following sentence: “Blacks are more stupid than whites.” I like that sentence and think that it is true … based on what I have read, I think it is probable that black people have a lower average IQ than mankind in general, and I think that IQ is highly correlated with what we normally mean by “smart” and “stupid”. Nick Bostrom, email to Extropian listserv 1. Introduction I was scheduled to post a discussion of existential risk from cl

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