tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post8117751414911774887..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-32444721978124612582009-05-12T22:13:00.000-07:002009-05-12T22:13:00.000-07:00credential giving institutions are built for game ...credential giving institutions are built for game players, not game changers.RomeoStevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11879518218082564987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-46378931908252663092009-05-11T19:54:00.000-07:002009-05-11T19:54:00.000-07:00Classic American style nerds are pretty masculine,...Classic American style nerds are pretty masculine, they also tend to lack "credentials."<br /><br />Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Philo T. Farnsworth, Samuel Colt, John Moses Browning, all come to mind. This particularly applies to Mechanical types, who tend to be tinkerers.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-12433031026467333102009-05-11T18:48:00.000-07:002009-05-11T18:48:00.000-07:00The whole drift of this post is starting to make m...<I>The whole drift of this post is starting to make me feel uncomfortable</I>.<br /><br />I bet it's because Ron figures everyone knows he's straight, and he wants to <I>avoid</I> making everyone uncomfortable. So we won't think he's talking about hittin' on his lady students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-80601296240496482312009-05-11T18:41:00.000-07:002009-05-11T18:41:00.000-07:00When I find this kind of student, I want to kiss t...<I>When I find this kind of student, I want to kiss them.</I><I>Sailer is a nice looking masculine guy, like Werner Von Braun was, etc</I>The whole drift of this post is starting to make me feel uncomfortable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-46998298176355543982009-05-11T11:52:00.000-07:002009-05-11T11:52:00.000-07:00"...they all want to help people and save the worl..."...they all want to help people and save the world..."<br /><br />Well, sort of. <br /><br />As Thomas Sowell has documented, such youngsters are keen to discover schemes and plans by which other peoples' money can be used with the rationale of helping people and saving the world - less keen when it comes to checking the outcome of these schemes and plans. <br /><br />Typically, these schemes and plans make matters worse in such a way as to provide long-term, well-paid and high status employment for those who want to help people and save the world.<br /><br />Indeed, it seems that no amount of evidence of harm inflicted can ever be enough to deter young people from their schemes and plans to help people and save the world.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-51976899644316660342009-05-11T11:18:00.000-07:002009-05-11T11:18:00.000-07:00"But you are my heroes. Without you, we'd still be..."But you are my heroes. Without you, we'd still be living in grass huts."<br /><br /><br />precisely......m<br /><br /><br /><br />(furthermore, dammit!, if the men that the media praises and women gush over were the sole type of men on the planet, we'd rarely move forward technolgoically, agriculturally, environmentally. We really would stagnante. Greg Cochran once suggested the same genes that made Ashkenazi Jews smart, also made them liable to develop several diseases that they have way more often than the rest of the population. Perhaps some of the same genes that make nerds so smart, also make them a little less socially dominant. They aren't all "homely" men as there are too many exceptions to the rule (Sailer is a nice looking masculine guy, like Werner Von Braun was, etc). Many do seem introverted and interested in esoteric things. I think this is wonderful as the nerds Ive known have been genuinely delightful people who were conciencious about others. <br /><br />And yet we live in a culture where Chris Brown and George Clooney are praised.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com