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This message would be much more believable if you didn't use it to advertise a (necessarily exclusionary) religion.

Completely understand that my final conclusion is unpopular.

My message is mostly that standardized tests can help minorities.

Typically, the assumption is that they hurt minorities.

But, if you're a high performer that is graded unfairly, standardized tests can help reveal the truth.

Not sure what I should take away from "taking a look" at your link. Do you mean "look at what comes from mankind ; we can't expect anything good from it when results like these are some of its outputs"? I'd hope that's what you intended but I fear that it's not.

I personally do hope for either AGI or a 3rd type encounter to expend Humanity's philosophy.

So, I look at climate change, division and gridlock in the world's great democracies, as well as social issues and unrest.

Despite all of our wonderful technological and scientific advances, our basic problems still involve moral division and disagreement.

This is in harmony with what the Bible predicted.

Commenting on our intellectual capacity: "there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be impossible for them"

Commenting on our moral situation: "men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money...not open to any agreement"

So, the Bible's thesis seems very accurate to me.

We have unlimited scientific and engineering ability.

But very limited ability to create harmony.

That's why prejudice, jingoism, injustice, racism, and numerous other issues are stubbornly difficult to get rid of.

But since the Bible's thesis is correct, I believe its proposed solution is likely correct as well.

It's also in harmony with a shotgun hitting a target. Any prediction will be accurate if you make it vague enough.

I used to work with a black lady at the water treatment plant for my town in high school. The JW's disfellowshipped her for the crime of having opinions and divorcing her husband. Maybe you need to take a close look at your proposed solution with 144000 slots on the lifeboat.

> At my blue blood private school, I had a math teacher who explicitly told my dad that he gave me a bad letter of rec on an MIT summer camp application, because as a black person affirmative action would make life too easy for me.

How horrible. The only lesson of value is, "this specific teacher cannot be trusted." To deny a student an opportunity to learn to teach some bizarre life lesson is completely misguided. Sorry you had to experience it.

> Standardized tests helped protect me from teacher bias.

Me too. I got terrible grades because I was busy trying to be a rebel in high school. Many of my teachers thought it more important to teach "life lessons" instead of their subject. I did very well on the ACT and SAT and got into college despite lackluster grades.

I agree that humans are a mess. Well done on making it to MIT, it is not the first time I read or hear an experience like yours. Still, some kids are not privileged enough to get good math education but they might be late bloomers. I've met a genius with horrible SAT scores, a late bloomer, self-taught who now publishes in renowned math journals

And all that blue blood private schooling, mathematical prowess and MIT education has led you to conclude that the solution to all of humanity’s problems, checks link, is the Bible.

Please don't take HN threads further into religious flamewar and certainly please don't cross into personal attack, which your comment arguably did.

No doubt the link was a provocation but the whole idea here is to resist shallow provocations and focus on the interesting substance of a post, or an article, or a phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I know the Bible is very unpopular. But I've done a lot of research and feel confident that it's not the book of myths and legends people think it is.

But that's a topic for another day. :)

Please don't go there here. It won't work, and will just create a tedious ruckus.

its common knowledge that mathematicians are more religious than other scientist