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by devalier 10y ago
So are the 52 psychologists who signed this scientific consensus about the bell curve all KKK-types -- https://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstrea... ? Guess there's a reason we don&#x2
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by devalier 10y ago
With reference to Africa, you can define the Cathedral as the permanent staff of the U.S. State Department, the universities and think tanks that operate with a revolving door with the State Department, and the NGOs funded by State (or fund
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by devalier 10y ago
At exactly the point where you think this actually fucking matters when evaluating the value of those people. Well I certainly would wish that the entire issue of the racial test score gap would be dropped. We should only worry about trea
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by devalier 10y ago
You know, that there actually really were/are actually people who actually thought black/latino/etc. people were actually inferior... actually. For Real. Historical Fact. Period. That the term "racist" clearly and
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by devalier 10y ago
Take away? I have no takeaway. I have no idea how to fix things. But the first step to any solution is recognizing what actually happened.
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by devalier 10y ago
Does free speech have the power to corrupt other minds at a level that that free speech should instead be controlled? Yes. And ironically, the one who convinced me of that point is Yarvin/Moldbug. (He actually argued, partly tongue-a
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by devalier 10y ago
I think people who disagree that MM's writing is racist are mostly just hoodwinked by the above rhetorical ploy I think MM's answer to the racism charge was much better here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by devalier 10y ago
For example, in one comment he rambles on about colonialism being not-so-impeachable because those Africans were brutes prior to and after colonization. The problems with a statement like this really are quite obvious It seems to me you c
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by devalier 11y ago
All human fields of study are very messy, they are not precise sciences in the way that Newton's laws are. IQ tests are designed to be excellent proxies for what we generally understand to be intelligence. They can be better or worse p
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by devalier 11y ago
If the top article on the Hacker News home page contradicts the evidence and the data that I have read, what am I supposed to do? I did not paste in a pre-written screed. I have read a lot on this subject, so I had a bunch of links and sour
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by devalier 11y ago
I gave a link to stereotype threat earlier - http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/john-list-on-virtual-none... And keep in mind, even if the studies were replicable, the studies did not even show that stereotype th
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by devalier 11y ago
Computer programming is one of the most cognitively demanding professions in existence. Ability to program correlates pretty highly with cognitive test scores, such as the SAT Math. If you look at the top scorers on such tests in America, o
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by devalier 11y ago
I hope the mods don't mind that I wrote my own title, as the original title of the article was not at all descriptive.
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Does wealth cause IQ? Or IQ cause wealth?(jaymans.wordpress.com)
3 points by devalier 11y ago|1 comments
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by devalier 11y ago
This idea that statistics can only confirm and supplement "qualitative observations" (I.e. my priors) is completely unscientific and anti-intellectual. Since when is investing in startups a science? What is anti-intellectual, wh
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by devalier 11y ago
This may be a better place to start -- https://jaymans.wordpress.com/jaymans-race-inheritance-and-i... and https://jaymans.wordpress.com/about/ . VDare tends to preach and agitate to the already convert
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by devalier 11y ago
OK I missed that you meant "easily fixed" in the strictly mathematical sense, not in the practical, real-world application sense. With statistics on human affairs, 99% of the hard part is not the math, it is applying that math to
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by devalier 11y ago
A charitable interpretation of what he or she said is this: don't evaluate bias by looking at outcomes of the average applicant, look at the outcomes of the borderline applicants. That is fine, that is what he was saying. The point i
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by devalier 11y ago
B. The uterus and melanin both inhibit programming ability, interviewers are perfect judges of programming ability, therefore most hires are white men. Serious question: can you at least steel man this point of view rather than making it
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by devalier 11y ago
Compute min(accepted a) and min(accepted B) instead of the means. Dude, your comments are normally smarter than this. Yeah, you can easily fix Grahams's test -- all you need are some numbers that do not exist and that we cannot measu
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by devalier 11y ago
So in this particular case, assuming that First Round's sample size is significant, it may just be that the female founders who seek them out are just on average better than the male ones? I suppose that if women think that the selec
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by devalier 11y ago
Fortunately there's a way to measure bias that's much more reliable, when it can be used....A couple months ago, one VC firm (almost certainly unintentionally) published a study showing bias of this type. First Round Capital foun
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by devalier 11y ago
Simply asking the same set of questions to all candidates won't fix it, if the questions themselves have the effect of weeding out women. The questions I asked were representative of things we actually had to do on the job, for insta
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by devalier 11y ago
Let's assume tall people and short people are equally good at cracking eggs. Umm, in the actual example we are talking about, the evidence is on the side of that assumption being false: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by devalier 11y ago
If those studies are true, then the correct solution would be to: 1) ask people not include their names on their resume. Or don't use resumes at all. Create a web form application that does not require a name and only asks about the cr
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by devalier 11y ago
From Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature : ------------------------- But of course the minds of men and women are not identical, and recent reviews of sex differences have converged on some reliable diff
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by devalier 11y ago
With the current system, home owners have every incentive to block new housing. New housing makes their own asset less scarce, and thus less valuable. The home-owner receives zero benefit from the new construction. With a shareholder system
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by devalier 11y ago
" the source you've provided appears to be this person literally arguing for privatization in order to create a corporatist autocracy. By that way: that's the solution to San Francisco's problems you find promising &quot
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by devalier 11y ago
Well the exact rules would be determined by the San Francisco power blocks enacting the plan. It would be up to them. It would be unwise to give all new residents shares, for the reason that you point out. But you would want them to be able
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by devalier 11y ago
I think our progressive politics IS to blame: for deluding San Franciscans into believing such a thing is possible. Actually it is possible. But the irony is that the person who came up with best idea that would have fixed/prevented

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