[dabbledash]

I think the fact that you know many educated, smart people from very poor countries doesn’t mean that most or all smart people in very poor countries get good educations. I was under the impression that there were many places still where large numbers of children, particularly girls, don’t complete a secondary education. (Open to being wrong about that though).

I’m definitely not against looking for ways to make knowledge work compatible with building a larger family.

I just don’t think increasing reproduction in the college educated is our best play for increasing the number of smart people working on hard problems.

[danieltillett]

Most people in rich countries don’t get a very good education, but most very smart people (even girls) born anywhere do get a chance. I do agree we could do better, but things are overall improving.

I don’t think arguing for encouraging smart people to have more children argues against improving the education of poor smart people. This is not a zero sum game.