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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Samuel Taylor Coleridge had an opium addiction too. We should legalize drugs and help people who get addicted, not just ban substances that some people use responsibly.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
You're right --- but as John Maynard Keynes famously wrote, "In the long run, we're all dead". In the medium term, it is unreasonable to expect middle America to compete with workers from countries with no environmental
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
https://www.quora.com/Psychology-Do-men-have-a-wider-varianc...
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
IQ is not boosted much by intensive education, especially in adults. Intensive education can raise IQs during childhood, but by the time these children mature into adults, their IQs are roughly where you'd expect by extrapolating from
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
IQ correlates very well with all sorts of things, including career choice (e.g. physicists have very high IQs) and lifetime earning. By any objective measure, IQ is at the very least a prerequisite for brilliance.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
More likely, I think, is that it contradicts the feminist narrative that every gender disparity that disadvantages women is the fault of the patriarchy and every gender disparity that favors women is evidence of inherent female virtue.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
This belief is accurate. Men and women have similar IQ means, but men have greater variance. This difference implies that there are more low-IQ men than there are low-IQ women, and also that there are more high-IQ men than high-IQ women. De
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> It's increasingly difficult to opt out of browser autofill Good. I hope browsers autodetect these web font tricks and pop up similar warnings. I can't stand when some random website make thinks it can do a better job of crede
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only developer who can't stand the kind of PM you describe.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Microsoft has a lot of deadweight, mostly holdovers from the Ballmer era.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The crimethink goes deeper than that. IQ indeed differs by heritage. Why shouldn't other personality traits? What if one group has personality traits that on average lead to greater success getting through the process at a corporate he
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> But the relation of those groups with what we call "race" is almost zero. The everyday races correspond to real, observable genetic clusters. There are real characteristics shared by members of these large groups, e.g. the ep
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Why would it be surprising that the child of someone who is white and someone who is half white might go on to appear mostly white? You yourself mention that your genetic makeup (presumably from 23andme or something) also suggests a "m
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
When you take a big corpus of genomes and split them using impartial mathematics into similarity-clusters, you get clusters that almost perfectly match the continent-scale races that people self-report. That's not "arbitrary"
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> Could you list what races you think exist, and some kind of paper that establishes a scientific method for where the dividing lines in the genetic gradients are drawn and why such a line needs to be drawn at all? Let's define our
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> scientists getting behind the idea that there are clear racial lines dividing us all will not contribute to the peace-making. I disagree. Science promulgating obvious falsehoods like "race does not exist" breeds distrust of
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> 85% of genetic variation exists within local populations That's Lewontin's Fallacy [1]. There's no logical reason to think that genome-wide diversity within populations somehow proves that large-scale impactful allele f
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Race absolutely correlates with genetic clusters. Look at this map, [1], and say that there's no correlation between genetic markers and continental origin. Forensic anthropologists can identify race very well using nothing but bone st
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
If neanderthals were alive today, respectable people would call them homo sapiens sapiens and it'd be racism to suggest otherwise. Any evidence that you could distinguish neanderthals on the basis of genetics or morphology would be c
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Never hire executives from Wall Street. Not even once.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
We can't make America a homogeneous country. What we can do is stop demonizing successful groups and blaming them for social disparities. You're not going to make any progress so long as your discussion is limited to blaming whi
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> why must we pick ethnicity as the dividing feature? Human behavior is largely heritable. Ethnic groups represent groupings of heredity. (Look: I know the first sentence is one of those things you just can't say. Nobody wants to ad
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The way out of this trap is to emphasize the shared identity of people in the country instead of encouraging them to think of themselves as members of distinct ethnic groups within that country. It's for that reason that the identity p
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
While it's true that, a priori, there's no reason that ethnic homogeneity should be a prerequisite for a welfare state, this idea is misleading because it supposes that all ethnic groups contribute to the welfare state equally. I
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Then why is Modafinil still a controlled subtance? What about Adderall? They both greatly improve cognitive performance in healthy people, and they are widely used by healthy people, but we all do this ridiculous dance where we pretend th
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
It angers me that a drug yielding cognitive improvement of X in an Alzheimer's patient is progress, but the same drug yielding the an improvement of X in a healthy patient is abuse. There should be no stigma against improving ourselves
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> Donald Trump didn't claim the media was manufacturing negative coverage about him, making up quotes or taking quotes out of context and altering poll numbers throughout his entire campaign? He did make those claims, and as it tur
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
You'll have to do some research off-HN, sorry. I'm already treading very thin ground by questioning the polite consensus on these topics. It's too dangerous to bring up the real issues at a place like HN. Try scanning, say, t
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
"Fake news" is itself fake news. Look at the timing: immediately after Clinton lost, a consensus emerged among the losers that we have to do something about all the "fake news" floating around the internet. The timing
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
The old media has been lying for years, especially about race, gender, and sexuality. People saw through these lies, because the reality asserts itself to anyone who sees and hears, but most felt trapped, unable to report the evidence of th

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