There we go, stretching, thank you everybody, good evening.

Oh, it's our last Friday night live of the new, of the last, of the 2023,

it's the year is flying by, the year it's flashed by, like Ezra Miller on the run. is heal of socialism slash communism. One of the most forbidden topics today is IQ

is the reason simply that it's the left-greatest weakness. It seems to me that

left-wing ideas fall apart in the world where IQ is understood by the majority of

people.

So IQ, of course an educational detainment, IQ and income are very closely related.

I think you can do a lot with IQ and certainly wisdom is better than mere raw intelligence. I would rather be

wise than smart because wisdom leads to virtue, leads to happiness, intelligence leads to income

which often leads to corruption. But what IQ does is it helps us

understand disparities in outcomes between individuals.

And this gives us some understanding and some peace and some grace to recognize that

you know people who aren't good singers won't be fronting any rock and roll bands. They won't be featured doing

solos at the Metropolitan Opera and that's fine. There's more to life than IQ, there's

more to life than income and so it is it is important to understand IQ but one of the

problems with IQ is that it undermines the guilt mechanism. Like if you do

well in life, you've worked hard, you've got a high IQ, some of that is just good

luck, right? You understand some of that is just good luck. And you should be grateful for that good luck, you should be gracious about that good luck.

And I think for me the study of IQ brings a great deal of humility in that, you know, obviously I've got a couple of brain

cells rattle around the old noggin and it helps me to be humble and to not take the accidental

gifts of nature as somehow foundational to my value as an

individual, right? Like what are we worth? Are we worth our brain matter?

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