Comment by malfist
19 days ago
This is hogwash. It's incel and eugenic reasoning wrapped up all together.
Not every smart person (or even most) are engineers, and of the ones that are they don't all move to tech hubs, and the ones that do not all of them can't get laid.
And I'll give you a great reason why it's hogwash, the "brilliant" engineers that can't get laid in Singapore are the same "brilliant" engineers that can't get laid in their home town
I agree with you that STEM don't hold a monopoly on intelligence.
> engineers that can't get laid in Singapore are the same "brilliant" engineers that can't get laid in their home town
Maybe so, but not for the same reasons. Back in their home town, they cannot vibe with anyone because the few who might be compatible have long since left. In a STEM hotspot, they go to an event and meet compatible people, but it's 11 guys for every 3 girls, so unless they are top dog in that room, they aren't going to score.
And yet, the population of Singapore isn't 79% male.
IDK the dating scene in Singapore. I frankly didn't even know that Singapore was considered a tech hub. I was using it as a synonym for a tech hub because that is what I assumed the author was doing.
…not to mention they are completely ignoring the existence of smart girls as well
Higher education is strongly associated to lower fertility rates. Especially for women, but for men too. So no the argument doesn't ignore the existence of smart women. Smart women (and men) just far less likely to reproduce, statistically speaking.
> […] overflowing with smart guys. […] smart guys build […] he's the smartest guy […] local rich guy would start a business […]
It’s pretty clear this entire crude theory is based on a thinking system that has little place for women in active positions.
And if your immediate reaction to that is annoyance because it seems like an insignificant detail, maybe reflect on that for a moment.
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We can blame the individual for the cost we've outsourced into him. When he collapses under that load, we can attribute it to personal shortcomings. Some people survive, even thrive, in the current environment, after all. We've coalesced a plurality of games into a single one, and in a sense, it works great. We have our smartphones, AI, online shopping, and targeted advertising.
Notepad now has Copilot built right into it, after all. That wasn't going to happen by now if we took the human psyche as a given and built around that.
>>It's incel and eugenic reasoning wrapped up all together.
More like French post-structuralism.
> can't get laid
huh, I thought it was talking about how expensive extra bedrooms are in big cities so people choose not to have (as many) kids there
It’s the same nonsense as people going “Idiocracy is a documentary.“ Of course none of them think they’re the idiots.
I was going to comment the same. Complaining about how there are too many dumb people is a trollish red flag I've learned to disengage from.
Also, stop blaming your damn users.