aardvark2
10mo ago
The median east African has a room temperature IQ.
The median east African is more intelligent than most posters here on TheMotte.org including myself.
Hlynka confusing extroversion with intelligence once again.
Africans do pretty poor on real-life tasks "realizing witchcraft isn't real" and "whether having sex with virgin cures you of AIDS".
You're a military man. So tell me why McNamara's moron corps were bad at real-life tasks they were assigned, and damaging to other units' morale even though all what they were different is just worse result on paper-and-pencil test?
number of languages spoken
Do you believe if we compelled children to learn multiple languages at gunpoint they'd be any smarter? Compelling vaccinating children makes them healthier, at least for most vaccines.
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
I am capable of empathizing with people, but only when they think the same way I do, which means I hardly have empathy at all.
This is what vast majority mean by 'empathy' mean, they just aren't conscious about it.
aardvark2
1yr ago
One should never underestimate the male ability to completely not notice an approach by a woman.
For attractive men, it's very easy to build skill to recognize signs of women's approaching, because half of women like them. For unattractive men, who are repulsive to 95% of women, most of times when they think they're approached by woman, it'd be a false alarm, so it's difficult to build that skill.
aardvark2
1yr ago
But love is not an adult human need.
Did you miss that part where some identities entirely built on (specific type of) sex and love have huge role in current politics?
aardvark2
10mo ago
towards China and Iran, solidifying an anti-Western axis that spans Eurasia
Fun:looks somewhat like Mongol Empire.
so that Kiev can hold onto predominently Russian-speaking territories whose population mostly doesn't even want to be part of Ukraine?
It looks like that before population movement, only Crimea had solid majority who didn't want to be in Ukraine. Speaking Russian language doesn't necessarily mean being want to be part of Russia, compare Ireland and UK for example.
Basically, he's right except he translator added "one day" and "comrade". (an example where translations go longer and feature meanings which original didn't have)
The word is допереключаешься.
-ся is the reflective suffix/ending (offtopic: cringe spelling, compare e.g. Polish cognate is written się, more letters and diacritic, so it must be better)
-аешь is the ending for verb 2nd person singular. The future time rather than present is obtained by that complete word is a finite verb by virtue of its first prefix
ключ is the root for key/switch. Needs both prefix and ending to become a verb (some nouns don't need a prefix to become a noun, but this does).
пере- is prefix, one of many which could produce switching verbs; unlike English "switch on" Russian uses prefixes
до ???
PROFIT
I don't know much about Quechua but I think Quechua has more grammatical categories for intent and completness of information, apparently Incas liked Quechua so much so they shifted from their native language to Quechua.
aardvark2
1mo ago
Hlynka was at least interesting in being both anti-progressive and anti-HBD. Yo need to actually think about things for yourself to find yourself in that position.
This position is rare only here but pretty widespread in general public.
aardvark2
3mo ago
bad that putting them in the USA leads to social dysfunction as bad as that in modern day Russia.
Depends on what you mean by it. If you consider homicide ratios, US areas with Black population are much, much worse than modern Russia and similar to impoverished, hungry Russia in 1990ths.
because it has and has had for a long time significantly lower taxes and a much weaker redistributive welfare state compared to places like Sweden and the UK.
Strong wellfare state is relatively recent phenomenon. And USA was already rich compared to Europe in mid-19 th century, almost certainly even before that.
I would agree on the point, thought, that many white nationalists would want to build "socialism for whites only" and make ruinous decisions regarding economy, and, not mentioned in your post, ignore dysgenics in white community.
aardvark2
1yr ago
What do you mean? Do these 'many Muslims' turn against Islam and polygyny? Polygyny, as practiced by Mohammad, who is considered as example of how Muslims should live, inevitably creates incels. As was already noted in this thread, nice if you building society to go to war and use incels in a war.
120 will become the new 85.
There was Homo erectus once. Now it's Homo sapiens. When the latter replaced the former, did "120 become the new 85"? Do the sapiens enjoy better society?
No, increased automation meant "now that we can be in communication with the other side of the world, you have to work weirder hours so you can be there when the markets in Tokyo open"
19th century, no automation: you die from hunger.
aardvark2
3mo ago
Men are just as culpable for incentivizing women to behave in this way by simpishly responding to and validating said incentives, enabling this kind of dynamic
How? Jane says to John "John, you're so bad boy, come and fuck me". John declines and does not respond. Jane finds another bad boy to have sex with. Dynamic continues.
aardvark2
3mo ago
Women are willing to fuck hot chad men and also actively prefer drunkards to teetotallers despite of what they complain. Alcohol usage didn't drop in post-Soviet republics as new cohorts emerged.
aardvark2
1mo ago
Conservatives underrepresented in academia and owners of websites? Oh, it's not our fault conservatives cannot create modern software themselves. Men having higher suicide rates than women, shorter life expectancy and higher chance to be homicide victim? Again, not a problem.
aardvark2
1mo ago
Without decorum, why didn't you look into studying polygenic indices of different populations?
Hlynka wasn't interested in maintaining decorum, but also wasn't interested in making his POV clear or understanding opponents' POV.
aardvark2
1yr ago
Oh. How much HBD debate spoils us xD
His premise was that Mongols were successful in darwinian sense (more copies of their genes) not that their genes conferred some advantage.
aardvark2
12d ago
most interracial relationships involving black people involve a black man and white woman.
this is evidence that black women have very large troubles attracting anyone rather than "black men have no trouble attracting white women in the west"
aardvark2
21d ago
in a century can't be explained by their bad moral character. You are mostly fit because of your genetics
Genetics not only affects metabolism, but but moral character too. In humans, there is much more diversity of moral character than metabolism.
aardvark2
1mo ago
Maybe future has Britain replaced with Hindus and Pakistanis continuing rivalry with Russia replaced with Tajiks and Uzbeks despite no one remembering why it started. (haha, Hlynka could say: See, he was an identarian after all!)
aardvark2
3mo ago
Also, related: round userpics, which waste space. Cut corners aren't filled with any content. (could be buttons or indicators, at least) I abhor modern design. We probably would have much better designs if we had small screens like in past.
Maybe a part of problem is companies want to increase women representation, and women prefer doing design/UI/UX so users have to view needless frequent redesigns.
aardvark2
3mo ago
less distribution of resources (aka high wealth gaps)
This is very, very false equivalence. Wealth gaps are product of both policies and qualities of population. If you add low IQ permanent underclass to a country, keeping its economic policies same, then GDP per capita does down and Gini up. If everyone has same ability, then very intense competition doesn't create major difference in wealth. It's competition, not wealth gaps per se, creates economic growth.
I dont see strong correlation of what you claim on 2d plot: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gini-coefficient-vs-gdp-per-capita-pip Very low GINI index doesn't help Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia grow economically. It's just a reflection that these countries quite homogenous in regard to IQ.
GDP per capita continues to grow in the US even with the vast expansion of welfare programs
Also obesity and number of HIV+ people in US continues to grow. Probably obesity is not harmful and even good for economic growth.
aardvark2
1yr ago
....and no confidence intervals. Might be a fluke. Or it might be valid, but temporary due to extreme COVID quarantines. We know that women like to underreport quantity of sex.
aardvark2
1yr ago
The identity is central struggle; we say "gays" instead of "people with homosexuality" and the narrative was if we don't allow Y, then we are depriving X of something very important.
aardvark2
1yr ago
No, overweight men earn more than slim men
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8468324/
are few fat 'STEM people', particularly in physics and math, compared to other areas (the stereotypical fat feminist).
Feminists control minds. Physics and math men are near bottom of ladder and full of incels.
No, nobody has ever demonstrated that incels are more likely to hold "ethno-supremacist views" than men in general. It's just reviling for reviling sake.
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