真巧，我刚才还在另一个评论帖里跟人聊起弗雷迪·德波尔（Freddie deBoer）写的《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）。每个美国人都该读读这本书。我看了斯科特·亚历山大（Scott Alexander）写的批评长文，总体来说算是一篇不错的反驳，值得一读，但我对里面的很多观点有很大意见……
Funny, I was just talking with someone about The Cult of Smart by Freddie deBoer on another comments thread here. Every American should read it. I read Scott Alexander's critical review and I'd recommend it as a nice response overall but I have a lot of problems…
……没有人能决定自己天生的学术能力，而一个根据学术能力来分配财富与困苦的制度，本质上且永远都是一场被操纵的赌局。”——弗雷迪·德波尔（摘自《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart），顺便说一句，这书写得太绝了）
…one can determine their own natural academic abilities, and a system that doles out wealth and hardship based on academic ability is inherently and forever a rigged game." -- Freddie de Boer (from The Cult of Smart, an incredible book btw)
HN 上的某些朋友可能对学者弗雷迪·德波尔（Freddie deBoer）有所了解，他最近刚出版了一本专门讨论这个话题并给出应对建议的书——《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）[1] [1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200389
Some of the HN crowd might be familiar with the academic Freddie deBoer, who just recently published a book on this very topic with some suggestions of how to address it, _The Cult of Smart_[1] [1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200389
……生产，无论是直接还是间接”）也是可遗传的，而且在书中这种效应还通过优生学被放大了。在弗雷德里克·德波尔（Fredrik deBoer）的《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）中，你能看到对这一论点更为现代且不那么讽刺的阐述。
…production, directly or indirectly”) is also heritable, and in the book this effect was amplified through eugenics. You can find a more modern and less satirical take on this argument in Fredrik deBoer’s The Cult of Smart.
……阿巴拉契亚地区失业的前煤矿工人。事实证明，这里真正的“独门秘诀”其实是“成为那种能把编程学好的人”。在这点上我支持弗雷迪·德波尔，正如他在《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）一书中所言：我们必须承认并不是所有人都拥有相同的智力。只有做到这一点，我们才能开始思考如何打造一个能够照顾到智力处于中位数以下的半数人口的世界……
…unemployed former coal miners in Appalachia. It turns out, the real secret sauce here is "be the kind of person who can get good at programming". I'm with Freddie deBoer here, as he says in his book The Cult of Smart: we need to accept that not everyone has the same intellectual abilities. Once we do that, we can start thinking about how we make a world that works for the half of the population below the median on…
……出身门第。这种情况已经持续很久了。而在那之前，那些机构的主要功能是培训牧师。玩笑归玩笑，有充分的证据表明（比如《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）[1] 一书中汇集的研究），在发达国家，教育的边际效应已经饱和了。换句话说，你在名校所能受到的教育，并不见得就明显比在普通学校好多少。……
…pedigrees. That has been true for a long time. And before then, the primary function of those institutions was training ministers. Joking aside, there's lots of evidence (assembled in a book like The Cult of Smart [1]) that the effects of education are saturated in developed countries. In other words, you won't get an appreciably better education at a prestigious school than you will at an unprestigious school.…
真巧，我刚才还在另一个评论帖里跟人聊起弗雷迪·德波尔（Freddie deBoer）写的《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）。每个美国人都该读读这本书。我看了斯科特·亚历山大（Scott Alexander）写的批评长文，总体来说算是一篇不错的反驳，值得一读，但我对里面的很多观点有很大意见……
Funny, I was just talking with someone about The Cult of Smart by Freddie deBoer on another comments thread here. Every American should read it. I read Scott Alexander's critical review and I'd recommend it as a nice response overall but I have a lot of problems…
……没有人能决定自己天生的学术能力，而一个根据学术能力来分配财富与困苦的制度，本质上且永远都是一场被操纵的赌局。”——弗雷迪·德波尔（摘自《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart），顺便说一句，这书写得太绝了）
…one can determine their own natural academic abilities, and a system that doles out wealth and hardship based on academic ability is inherently and forever a rigged game." -- Freddie de Boer (from The Cult of Smart, an incredible book btw)
HN 上的某些朋友可能对学者弗雷迪·德波尔（Freddie deBoer）有所了解，他最近刚出版了一本专门讨论这个话题并给出应对建议的书——《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）[1] [1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200389
Some of the HN crowd might be familiar with the academic Freddie deBoer, who just recently published a book on this very topic with some suggestions of how to address it, _The Cult of Smart_[1] [1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200389
……生产，无论是直接还是间接”）也是可遗传的，而且在书中这种效应还通过优生学被放大了。在弗雷德里克·德波尔（Fredrik deBoer）的《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）中，你能看到对这一论点更为现代且不那么讽刺的阐述。
…production, directly or indirectly”) is also heritable, and in the book this effect was amplified through eugenics. You can find a more modern and less satirical take on this argument in Fredrik deBoer’s The Cult of Smart.
……阿巴拉契亚地区失业的前煤矿工人。事实证明，这里真正的“独门秘诀”其实是“成为那种能把编程学好的人”。在这点上我支持弗雷迪·德波尔，正如他在《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）一书中所言：我们必须承认并不是所有人都拥有相同的智力。只有做到这一点，我们才能开始思考如何打造一个能够照顾到智力处于中位数以下的半数人口的世界……
…unemployed former coal miners in Appalachia. It turns out, the real secret sauce here is "be the kind of person who can get good at programming". I'm with Freddie deBoer here, as he says in his book The Cult of Smart: we need to accept that not everyone has the same intellectual abilities. Once we do that, we can start thinking about how we make a world that works for the half of the population below the median on…
……出身门第。这种情况已经持续很久了。而在那之前，那些机构的主要功能是培训牧师。玩笑归玩笑，有充分的证据表明（比如《聪明人崇拜》（The Cult of Smart）[1] 一书中汇集的研究），在发达国家，教育的边际效应已经饱和了。换句话说，你在名校所能受到的教育，并不见得就明显比在普通学校好多少。……
…pedigrees. That has been true for a long time. And before then, the primary function of those institutions was training ministers. Joking aside, there's lots of evidence (assembled in a book like The Cult of Smart [1]) that the effects of education are saturated in developed countries. In other words, you won't get an appreciably better education at a prestigious school than you will at an unprestigious school.…