aardvark2
1yr ago
I think similar trick was already used to bypass US export limitations for strong cryptography
aardvark2
1yr ago
Also, Mormons for some reason gravitate to the three-letter agencies.
Bc. Mormons have compulsory missionareeing (ah, my English, fix it), often in another countries, so which has a lot overlap with what three-letters do. Also Mormons missionaries work in pair and each reports to superiors on the other one. Perfect!
aardvark2
1yr ago
I was sure it was meant to be a joke.
Btw, to be a good catcher of %x% means you needs to understand %x% MO, become a %x%!
Also you can legally watch materials forbidden to others.
aardvark2
1yr ago
FTX scam is moving money from one pocket to another with small net loss to society. While violent crime creates large burden on victim with very small benefit to attacker.
It's just that different races more more likely to engage in different types of crimes,
different types, when summed, all perfectly align to a harm value equal for every other race?
aardvark2
1yr ago
and 'africa was nicer for survival than europe' isn't really true
Now many species of Primates inhabit Africa, and how many inhabit Europe?
there would be niches that were hard to survive in).
Like which ones?
aardvark2
1yr ago
MAOA 2R allele (which is a lot worse than originally found 3R low activity allele).
aardvark2
1yr ago
What evidence would it take to convince you that the "cycle of poverty" hypothesis is true / explains a large portion of the black/everyone else disparity across a number of different life outcomes?
One, when the hypothesis becomes a hypothesis and not a circular reasoning as it is now. Two, if promoters of cycle of poverty would diversify use cases of similar cycles and not only apply them to specific demographics. There might be many inidividual in smaller vicious cycles who do not reach their potential and considered enemies by promoters of cycles of poverty.
aardvark2
1yr ago
related fact that immigrants might be low-income but might or might not have cultural attributes associated with poverty
immigrants might be low-income but might or might not have genetic traits predisposing them for poverty
aardvark2
1yr ago
Why anti-HBD people don't promote e.g. usage of artificial languages like Lojban? (the only example I know is early Soviets promoting Esperanto). Wouldn't be type of language affecting individual's development a lot? Also, Chinese and Japanese have problem that word lookup is difficult. This is a less problem is smartphone era, but earlier finding a word was pretty difficult whereas in alphabetic languages any child can find word in dictionary fairly quickly. I read someone hypothesing that this must have negative effect on social mobility.
aardvark2
1yr ago
Under which standard of evidence Sapir _Whorf was debunked but, say, systemic racism wasn't?
There is active attempts to push pronouns/latinx/v Ukraine and other changes to language.
aardvark2
1yr ago
It's not like the West is devoid of moral panics: DeepNude was met with a ridicule, FaceApp was booed when they added "change race" filter, and how ChatGPT is being learnt to hide non-PC things. How we can measure that China's Xi-protecting sentiment is more detrimental to development?
aardvark2
1yr ago
majority whites from excluding minority Blacks from virtually every public accommodation in the South
Sorry for nitpick, but in many US states Black population was/is about 30-50%. IIRC there were three states which had >50% for certain period of time.
aardvark2
1yr ago
You write
Because none of that is factual.
and then almost immediately
bunch of poor peasants
Which fraction of pop of Russia involved in agriculture, what do you think? It's not a first time you throw 'peasants' just for fun.
aardvark2
1yr ago
Holodomor occured because of economist policy of that government. Turning Holodomor into a tribal issue is a way to make more hostility and real corpses in future.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine private ownership of land wasn't working until as recently as 2019. In many ways post-1991 Ukraine was more sovok than post-1991 Russia
aardvark2
1yr ago
Ukraine had UN membership from founding of UN...
The CSA was not recognized by as a country by others, even by UK. Post-1991 Ukraine has decades of peaceful life and got recognition by everyone.
aardvark2
1yr ago
There must be some pleiotropy, because most species sit in local optima for most of the time.
You know, there isn't that a 4-million dataset is open for everyone for study. For privacy reasons, large GWAS studies are only combing linear correlations together. We know incest is bad yet those GWAS studies fail to show it. This is very crude model and you shouldn't take it too seriously.
examples
Pursuing search for eternal life instead of reproducing oneself.
Low SMV (for men), ceteris paribus.
Being a cuck.
Writing long, elaborate, texts into defence for being a cuck.
aardvark2
1yr ago
can we have a poll on this?
You know >I am inviting him to make his case.
would help to to determine opinions of majority here and minority here.
aardvark2
1yr ago
I don't think Hsu is that concerned antagonistic pleiotropy. I think he'd prefer increasing IQ via PGS even if it's say decreased athleticism and many other traits.
Isn't it that to getect genetic effect, we need sample size of N, but to detect pleiotropy, we need N^2?
Among animals in general, this meta-analysis found that inbreeding is very common
I don't understand your point here, avoiding it has costs also. Doesn't mean it's bad for individual.
aardvark2
1yr ago
....would you consider writing DOS clients for simple games using networks (e.g. chess at lichess.com) or generals.io?
aardvark2
1yr ago
Well, Scott at least does 1 big poll each year. Is it wrong? I understand why it'd be bad if every motte poster would create one here, but polls provide infortmation supplementary to postings.
and I am also interesting in opinions of people other than those two create long effortposts. A poster being rare poster doesn't mean they don't have strong opinions.
aardvark2
1yr ago
Not convinced 'time preference' is a real thing separate from intelligence
Theres MAOA 2R allele which increases chance to be arrested for doing crime significantly yet no effect on intelligence.
Most "candidate genes" didn't replicate, but MAOA did. There was also recently replication from Russia (albeit not for 2R, which they got only one individual)
https://psychiatr.ru/files/magazines/2020_04_obozr_1584.pdf
The effect of 2R (in males) is so big that they even compare 2R vs all other, i.e. older-known "bad" 3R allele becomes "good" in this comparison.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24326626/
Effect of low activity MAOA replicates in controlled expirements on mice very well. Main cause you don't hear about it is because of obscurantists.
having a bunch of different alleles with small individual effects that add up to something big
sure there's other alleles which effects add, my point is separation of time preference from intelligence is already established, and burden of proof on you.
The only Slavic langauges with articles are Bulgarian and Macedonian (which sometimes considered as a dialect of the former) and they don't look similar to types in English etc.
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