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Generally speaking people have worse impulse control than they believe they do. Once you give a tool that does most of the work for you, very very few people will actually be able to use that tool in truly enriching ways. The majority of people (even the smart ones) will weaken over time and take shortcuts.
> - Brain wiring from experiences
> - Chemical impact from experiences, e.g. nutrition, toxins, sunlight, muscle dev etc etc.
Are these not all part of the nurture / environment bucket? Or are we drawing a hard boundary between nurture (eg, parenting) and environment? (eg, lead in the pipes)
An interesting tidbit in the nature vs. nurture debate is that nature and nurture interplay in ways you might not expect. For instance, height is approximately 90% heritable in the United States -- but this does not mean that in a vacuum height is mostly genetic. It means that in the United States nutrition has mostly been solved (and yes, even the "food insecure" in the US rarely lack for the actual calories which would impact their height -- food insecurity causes other problems) and therefore the only real differences that can remain are the genetic differences.
It might be useful to look at any twin study through this lens; if we know for sure the genes are the same and nature is off the table, how much variance remains?