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by causi 1649 days ago
it's bad for multicultural societies where some cultures are significantly more conscientious and dutiful than others, or simply have different values

Sure, go ahead and see what happens when you disconnect negative behavior from negative outcomes. I'm sure that has no long-term consequences for your civilization.

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That's a straw man you've constructed. I've never said that negative behaviour is going to be rewarded.

Getting back to Harvard, everyone who goes there will be extremely competent. You seem to be suggesting that they'll be accepting slackers and truants.

Getting back to Harvard, everyone who goes there will be extremely competent [citation needed]
> Getting back to Harvard, everyone who goes there will be extremely competent

Now. Once they start admitting students absent an IQ test, don't be surprised when it's prestige and the assumed quality of it's graduates is diminished.