A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man

greyman · on Dec 5, 2008

I skimmed through the article, but couldn't find anything really new there.

petercooper · on Dec 6, 2008

The history was interesting, but it seems they threw up a lot of stuff of no substance to pad it out:

Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, believes knowledge is always a good thing—and that more of it should be shared

Like.. for real? :)

dimitar · on Dec 6, 2008

How do magazines do business? They have stories suggested and paid by PR firms who are paid by other firms. So this is really an advertisement.

Eh, and I actually like Google and the Economist..

robak · on Dec 6, 2008

What happened to The Economist recently? First, day say that intelligent men have better sperm then stoopidos. Now, they treat Sergey like an example for super-human. A few more articles and they'll be explaining why euthanasia for poor and stupid is a good thing.

byrneseyeview · on Dec 6, 2008

First, day say that intelligent men have better sperm then stoopidos.

Is this actually false? I thought that adoption and twin studies were pretty clear on the matter.

A few more articles and they'll be explaining why euthanasia for poor and stupid is a good thing.

There is actually a pretty huge gap between, e.g. "People inherit traits from their parents, including intelligence," and "All people with trait x must be killed." Maybe if you didn't immediately make that logical leap to a policy conclusion, you'd be more comfortable considering the facts.

robak · on Jan 10, 2009

Well, nazis also never said directly they're killing weak people in camps. I just meant the overall style they represent. It reads like the newest findings of Nazi science or something...