From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, May 3, 2014 12:45:40 PM UTC-4, David Friedman wrote:   
   > On 5/3/14, 12:46 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > Shockley is well-remembered for his Nobel Laureate sperm bank and similar   
   insane eugenics shit.   
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   > Why do you regard a Nobel sperm bank as an insane idea? Obviously there    
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   > are lots of very smart people who don't have Nobels, but the fact that    
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   > someone does have one is surely pretty strong evidence he's smart. If a    
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   > woman wants to conceive by sperm donation, doesn't it make sense for her    
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   > to want a donor with heritable chatacteristics she wants her child to    
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   > have�of which intelligence might well be one?   
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   I do not believe that Nobel Prize mojo is an inheritable trait, and I would   
   not equate it in any direct way to supreme intelligence.   
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   > Putting it in terms of Nobels is a bit of a publicity trick and sharply    
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   > reduces the number of suitable donors, but what's wrong with the    
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   > underlying idea?   
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   As I have been led to understand Robert Shockley's eugenics idea, he believed   
   that intelligence was concentrated in the masculine principle of Caucasians.   
      
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