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1yr ago
You don't need to know how intelligence works, you just need to sequence enough people in genome wide association studies, build a polygenic score and then run it
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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2yr 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?
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2yr 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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2yr ago
Didn't say it did, I was just pointing out that it was implemented somewhere, and is popular
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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2yr ago
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1yr 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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1yr 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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1yr 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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2yr ago
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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2yr ago
Many gender norms are amplifying existing sex differences. Eg men are naturally hairier than women, shaving exagerates this
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8mo ago
I don’t think the idea is to stop anyone, but rather have them do non abstract work like flipping burgers and learn the culture and average intelligence of the public and fast food coworkers rather than remain in their high IQ bubble
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2yr 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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2yr 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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2yr 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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2yr 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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2yr 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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2yr 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
"I asked Claude" "Claude patiently replies"
Claude is an AI chat bot built by Anthropic.
The OP didn’t hide it, used it to summarise information, which the bot has done correctly as far as I can tell (except maybe the user applied answers about home pc bioses to voter machines)
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9mo ago
Not exactly the same but there are known differences
Agreeableness involves the tendency toward cooperation, maintenance of social harmony, and consideration of the concerns of others
Women score half a standard deviation higher in agreeableness than men. For reference male/female height is 1 SD
They are approximately half as far:
English - Bantu is 0.23
English - Japanese is 0.12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_index
If you were to divide humanity into 2 clusters it would be African vs non African (also Neanderthal admixture)
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