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Evo vs. devo! (Um, sort of.) Thread at retrospectacle in which no one (until my intrusion) brings up that the old Attractive/Smart slider is in large part cultural. People don't seem to realise that they're creating the stupid hot people and smart ugly people with their strong preference for hotness. People who are hot do not have to do anything else, since they're rewarded so much for just being hot. Therefore they often don't do anything else, regardless of intelligence level. And more unattractive people feel they have to compensate.

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Hey, the early stages of ice-nine!