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I recently read this piece by Scott on his blog Astral Codex Ten, and I have opinions about it. Everyone has opinions about everything, and not all of them are particularly interesting, but I actually want to share my thoughts about this. If you haven't read the article, it is nominally about genetics, but really about what it would mean for one human being to be "inferior" to another. Scott discusses a lot of common objections to calling anyone "inferior" or "superior" (Like that it's unlikely that you are worse than someone else at literally everything or that regardless of what traits we have, we should treat everyone equally). Then he goes through these objections and shows that they aren't all that legitimate (Nobody uses "superior" to mean "literally better at everything", and we prioritize the life of a man who can cure cancer over on...