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    9 months ago

    How many Einsteins have we missed out on because they were born in America to a working class or poor family or as a person in a marginalized group?

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        9 months ago

        Probably, I didn’t mean to make it a competition. In both cases it’s a nonzero number and every one is a tragedy.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t think the comment was necessarily to dunk on Ethiopia per se as much as to make a point.

      E.g. The person who worked out at least a theoretical model for faster than light travel was Mexican. So we are obviously not dealing with this situation in which the most intellectual necessarily are born into western society.