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11mo ago
Like most things, criminality is partly heritable. Some people, when given freedom choose to defect against others.
Executing the most violent criminals before they reproduce over many thousands of years is artificial selection for civilisation.
You would expect it to increase the proportion of law abiding genes.
There are pretty big population difference is crime. Has anyone looked at historical time and percentage of executions for crime vs present day rates?
Over the long term, if you care about your lineage, sterilization and death in you or your descendants have the same outcome - the bones no longer appear
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1yr ago
Biology defines males and females as having small (sperm) and large (egg) sex cells.
True hermaphroditism is extremely rare and non functional:
Spermatogenesis has only been observed in solitary testes and not in the testicular portions of ovotestes
The chromosomes XY, XX etc generally kick off development to phenotypically adult human sexes but there are rare disorders which most people are familiar with now.
The chromosomal pairs for sexes are different in different species, eg in birds males are the sex with 2 identical sex chroms.
But birds and mammals both fit the large/small sex cell binary
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1yr ago
Didn't say it did, I was just pointing out that it was implemented somewhere, and is popular
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1yr ago
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7mo ago
And life years lost.
Perhaps greatest is loss of potential offspring. Instead of grandchildren a parent has to bury their kid and see their line end
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5mo ago
You would expect the Asian norm of kids looking after you in retirement vs Western welfare state would lead to them having higher birthrates than us, but those societies have some of the lowest TFRs on earth.
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8mo ago
He believes wokeness is downstream from the civil rights act.
Seems plausible, though I haven't seen comparisons of legislation vs wokeness in other similar Anglo countries like Canada and Australia who have frequent first nations prayers before government meetings.
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1yr ago
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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1yr ago
Many gender norms are amplifying existing sex differences. Eg men are naturally hairier than women, shaving exagerates this
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1yr ago
Just before he said yes, Cowen was trying to get him to back down due to St Petersberg paradox:
COWEN: Should a Benthamite be risk-neutral with regard to social welfare?
BANKMAN-FRIED: Yes, that I feel very strongly about.
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1yr ago
For Ada to be the first programmer, Charles Babbage must have designed the first programmable computer without ever coming up with any test programs for it.
He decided what instructions you'd need, and that you'd need multiple ones, then never thought about combining 2 or more together to do anything, ever.
Then lucky for him, a programmer appears!
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10mo ago
LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act
An article on how it changed how the country is governed:
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
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1yr ago
Invest in public companies likely to do well with AI. There is the BOTZ ETF, obvious plays like Nvidia etc. I wouldn't rely on some things appreciating in value, robots or future ruling classes may not be sentimental
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1yr ago
Eugenics is not part of the traditional culture of any country. The reason it's not implemented anywhere is a lack of popular support; it has nothing to do with the EU.
In Denmark, the Danish Cytogenetic Central Register, shows an average of 98% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome before birth are aborted each year.
Denmark is also famous for exporting tall blue-eyed babies via sperm donation catalogues
So, examples of currently active positive and negative eugenics going on there.
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11mo ago
Chat GPT-4 gets 88th percentile on the LSAT vs 40th for Chat GPT-3
If you are using the free version it's the equivalent of a D student, pay $20 to get an A student.
Your professor used to be right when he said the cutting edge AI model wasn't that good for law, but AI moves so fast he is now wrong
Jesus fathered no children. His most fervent followers, like monks and nuns took it literally and worked to help the poor and needy, neglecting to have families of their own.
Jesus and his followers didn't expect many generations to come after them, and humans to colonise the galaxy... they expected an apocalypse, and soon.
That he would gamble and eventually lose was foreshadowed here
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-bankman-fried/
COWEN: Okay, but let’s say there’s a game: 51 percent, you double the Earth out somewhere else; 49 percent, it all disappears. Would you play that game? And would you keep on playing that, double or nothing?
Gametes are used in biology because it works across species, while chromosomes or morphology don't.
The two stable equilibria are large cells (eggs, high investment) or small cells (sperm, cheap and mobile). There are no in between sized cells.
All differences in the sexes stem from this fundamental point. It is the reason for sex organs being the way they are. It is why female mammals are the ones who get pregnant and produce milk (they are the sex who invests more)
Different sized cells lead to different life and reproductive strategies, which lead to different morphologies, in body and mind.
Morphology follows from cell size, to focus on human morphology is to lose the perspective that we are just one of many animal forms building on binary gametes.
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11mo ago
Jesus did not preach kin selection, but the opposite:
Luke 14:12-14 New International Version
Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous
Great post.
A culture war angle you didn't touch on was admixture with white Australians.
You are either aboriginal or not, ie 1/16 counts the same as 100%.
Nature or nurture, whites outperform aboriginals, thus the indigenous medical school scholarship students all look like this:
I would be willing to bet most pure blooded Aboriginals are most concerned about better food, health and shelter while the 1/16th seem to be fighting hardest to get the government to hand out cushy white collar jobs - this looks to be what the voice is to me.
It is totally unacceptable in polite company to point out how white some of these activist / scholarship recipients / welcome to country paid performers etc look
Jewish civ bonuses:
Chosen people - ancient era bonus for developing monotheism and great prophets
Money lender - middle ages trade bonus, discount on banks
Lie back and think of Israel - modern era fertility bonus
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