aardvark2
8d ago
Why would you feel it's hellishly dystopian, when it's a positively banal part of the international system and has been for longer than you've been alive? As long as you claim citizenship of Country X, you have reciprocal obligations with country X
You're missing that part that all states conspired to make everyone have citizenship and do not allow to exit citizenship unless person has another citizenship (or guaranteed to obtain it). Exiting citizenship often is difficult thing.
So it's not a choice
aardvark2
6d ago
German Greens falsified evidence
Those that do not like it, already know; those that do not know, approve it.
why high IQ black people do worse than high/mid IQ white people
Regression to mean: children of rich high IQ blacks regress to mean and thus end having lower IQs that children of rich high IQ whites. If you correlate this with individual's IQ instead of parents' IQ or SES, you get much smaller racial gap.
and higher average IQ should correlate with more pro-social,
Consider than men are more criminal than women even if they have equal or slightly higher IQs than women, Among dog breeds, Huskies are stupid but rarely kill people, Pitbulls are smarter but kill people on regular basis.
I've seen no theory for a separate "criminality gene" being fleshed out.
congratulations on anti-HBD people running successful campaign on obfuscation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11126-013-9287-x https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-013-9791-3
"Identifying with a criminal culture",
It definitely exists and it's partly downstream of genetics.
orthogonal to IQ.
nobody suggesting it's orthogonal
aardvark2
13d ago
E.g. USA blacks and whites have same IQs after you "control" jointly for individual's income, education, marital status (and other factors which are downstream of IQs)
or, jokingly, controlling for lattitidue, Texas and Alaska have same climate.
aardvark2
25d 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
8d ago
What if Ukraine winning wasn't the goal in the first place but killing most Russians? .... Russia is big. And they can rubberstamp Russian citizenship to anyone wishing to enter EU. Wouldn't work.
aardvark2
9d ago
You answered neither of 2 my questions!
that year St Louis reported 200 murders in a city of 300,000 (of whom only 150k are black).
looks like you're showing number of murders for greater St. Louis (which is 3 million) with figure of population of St. Louis city.
why Nigeria reports more 10x homicide rate than Ghana, which it shares border with? Is 0.3 homicide rate per 100k for Senegal in 2015 close to truth?
aardvark2
16d ago
(2) isn't good evidence for (1) because Brazil Blacks are much more mixed than American, ditto Brazil Whites.
aardvark2
21d ago
A thought was pursuing me for a long time, and visited me during Scott's poll again. What if we polled a large number of people about their SMV (e.g on 1 to 10 scale) and their SO SMV, and then check those whose estimates match estimates made by another people. It's very well known that people of both genders greatly overestimate their SMV. What if amongst people with no SMV self-bias we could find some people who are superforecasters without them having to spend tens of hours to play a game. And if you want answer to some difficult ethical question, it might be wise to ask them, they are more likely to give correct answer than people who can write long texts with links to "peer reviewed" articles.
aardvark2
8d ago
a huge amount of Russians were accepted.
ahem. ahem. What means 'huge'? Ever since COVID times, EU does everything to let less Russians in, not more. And they mostly let those Russians the least likely to go to war (e.g. rich).
aardvark2
9d ago
15,000 British ruled over 400,000,000 Indians. In 2003, 130,000 NATO forces ruled over 20,000,000 Afghans, a vastly more favorable ratio. And yet they lost, because they were too afraid to do the needful.
I don't think it explains it. 5 centuries ago Babur the conqueror captured Delhi using Afganistan as his base. India is probably easier to conquer.
aardvark2
25d ago
Do I think left wingers are generally worse about it than right wingers?
there were polls on how likely a person would be unfriend those politically opposite views, so big yes.
aardvark2
3d ago
Ukraine to protect the Ukranians despite Ukraine facing far worse than Palestine.
Really? Less civilian Ukrainians killed by war in 2 years than Palestinians in few months (and that's not counting as a percentage of population). Also Ukrainian women are free to travel outside.
aardvark2
6d ago
"Ottoman" isn't genetic, Turkic tribes assimilated tribes they conquered, so any genetic effect is minimal, Turks in Turkiye have somewhat little genetic ancestry besides what was already there before Turkic conquest and effect on the Europe is even less.
aardvark2
6d ago
So at this point, we have pretty clear data that when Europe was Christian (and America), there was almost 0 non-white immigration to Europe
from wikipedia: By the mid-16th century, there were approximately 10,000 Africans in Lisbon, around 10% of the city's population. probably the reason there isn't large amount of blacks in Portugal now because they they all assimiated, this might be part of reasons why the country transitioned from a superpower to "hey, actually portugal belongs to eastern europe" tier.
aardvark2
9d ago
Your argument doesn’t really make sense.
Really? Do you object to that part that MAOA & DRD4 genes associated with climinality too?
specific dysfunctions, likely enabled by legal and social changes that were predominantly enacted by non-black politicians, entertainers and businessmen, that are not the natural destiny of their inhabitants per se.
I agree about this, but even if this this get fixed, we won't see B-W gap in USA disappear.
Why South Africa, Botswana and Nigeria officially report higher homicide rates (and by large margin) than less functional African countries? Low crime in African countries is suspect.
aardvark2
25d ago
Russia is only about 70% ethnically Russian
80.85% of those who declared ethnicity at 2021 Census.
aardvark2
11d ago
Exercise has much less effect on obesity than diet. Watching porn probably decreases consumption of food and decreases digestion efficiency. I read that diets high in fat decrease libido.
Special demographic operation: drafted to bear children
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