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There are plenty of gated communities and upscale neighborhoods.

What are the best examples?

anecdotal reports like that man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas

What possesses a man to do this? What drives a clean-cut, techno-optimist, science-tinkering Mormon with three kids to deal with arsonists (and arsonists). To be held at gunpoint. To interact continuously with thieves (and thieves, and intruders, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and thieves, and…I could go on), derelicts (and, and, and, …). To be assaulted by a zoning bureaucrat. To drive around a recently-purchased 220k square foot abandoned warehouse late at night. To livestream council sessions passionately deriding slow-moving approvals to apathetic council members, and to do it again, and yet to have no ready, coherent answer to the objection of building and zoning laws. To live in a house with contaminated water. And yet, despite all of this, to continue to persevere.

and ability to recognize and intergrate new information is only tangentially (if at all) related how high one scores on an IQ test. Ditto "academic achievement"

Attempts to study this empirically get results more like this,

The correlation between a latent intelligence trait (Spearman's g from CAT2E) and a latent trait of educational achievement (GCSE scores) was 0.81

rather than no relation.

Have you tried PACER?

You wouldn't have used the phrase if you truly thought that everyone agreed.

Fun: reading Wikipedia, the creator, D. David Bourland Jr, studied under Korzybski. The same Alfred Korzybski who coined 'the map is not the territory'.

This case from a few months ago is interesting.

A voice analysis conducted by Catalin Grigoras, Director of the National Center for Media Forensics, compared audio recordings of Jezos and talks given by Verdon and found that it was 2,954,870 times more likely that the speaker in one recording of Jezos was Verdon than that it was any other person

Trace, you posted a few days ago about Scott demurring Prophetship. Your recent stuff, vast quality and quantity, is reminding me of 2013-era Scott.

Arthur Herman's Freedom's Forge is excellent.

A recent example: a trans woman is attempting to rewrite the Sex page, and is at least receiving some pushback.

Took a look...his ad revenue must substantial. The last week of views: 400k, 550k, 530k, 770k, 620k, 1M, 400k. All are >30 minutes. Following internet rumours for CPV that's what, >$20k?

@DaseindustriesLtd:

  • "Truly, the day when we have to portray moneylenders as a whole as generous folk just to not offend groups which have historically been overrepresented in this line of work (and still are, just less so) will be a dark one."

But on the other hand. The bigger issue here, the one that leads to such false alarms, is that Rowling's world, like all classical fantasy/sci-fi worlds and especially ones informed by British mythology, is biodeterminist. It's not just exaggeration of class differences; Rowling herself may be staunchly liberal but her intuitions are... quaint, and her commitment to not recognizing trans women as women is of the same intuitive root.

I expected see a link here to her friendly relationship with Stuart J. Ritchie, author of Intelligence: All That Matters.

Another trope I've seen is a technical article written in dialogue form where a brilliant woman explains to a clueless, ignorant man how something works. It's always written by a man.

Gwern wrote a good review of the book.

Day Planner section with a more or less precise timetable that is parsed into time tracker with notifications

Interesting, how does the notification system work?

This is a good example.

I don't think this is a good example, considering it was skewered on LessWrong itself.