For example, language translation apps were terrible, just 10 years ago, but today are pretty good. The apps are good enough now that you can actually communicate with a stranger who doesn't know your language

what do you do with all these people who aren't bankers? Conservative's solution is to create social strife and point at big numbers.

If what you're implying is true (that anyone who couldn't otherwise graduate from Harvard could graduate with remedial classes) then literally anyone could potentially graduate from Harvard with remedial classes and everyone has exactly the same potential.

"Black" culture in the U.S. is unlike anything I've seen anywhere else in the world (although it is slowly taking hold in the UK as well) and it promotes values that are antithetical to academic success and conscientiousness in general.

I would not be surprised to see a new, entirely evidence-free hypothesis emerging:

I had to look up "motivated thinking" as a logical fallacy as I'd never heard of that one before.

That is possible in a minority of cases, where the professional program isn't making use of specialized hardware for acceleration or accessing resources using custom protocols and such.

Open source is wonderful and a powerful set of ideas from an academic perspective, but like things such as communism what works in the lab doesn't always mesh well with reality.