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3 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
@itsbirdemic Do you think the fact that you have to use proxies for anything involving the brain function weaken the true relationship to "true intelligence" as opposed to something more reliable and easier to measure - like height?
@itsbirdemic Like, imagine if you wanted to measure "strength". Like "intelligence", "strength" can mean all kinds of things. And one of your metrics appears to be "educational attainment" - intuitively that seems like it would correlate with "true intelligence", but so would working in a...
@itsbirdemic ... job that tends to attract people who seem to be "strong".

The problem is that "intelligence" seems fuzzy, and I don't know how you would be able to tell if a method is at all capable of capturing "intelligence" genetic variance if it were there.
@itsbirdemic From what I've heard, there haven't been any successfully replicated gene-associations that explain a plausible proportion of variance in "intelligence". Now you could just say "genes don't explain hardly and variance in human cognition at all" - let alone between defined pops
@itsbirdemic But that seems really wrong at an experiential level. Variance in proxies for "intelligence" between siblings for example, or the greater similarity on these proxies for identical vs. fraternal twins. I just don't think genetic "intelligence" can be identified molecularly yet.

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3 Feb
Watching Biden do everything in his power to lose popularity convinces me ever more of the "uniparty".
It always seemed so strange that the republicans and democrats remained in balance for so long given all the demographic changes. Makes me start to go tin-foil on it all.
Like, what if all this time, blacks were like 1/3 republican, and hispanics were always like 50-50. But it literally never mattered because every election's results were nudged just enough to get a pre-determined outcome. What if Trump, along with Qanon, was just a big "trust"?
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@jurijfedorov @KirkegaardEmil @desiraethinking What is "history"? It's politics. Don't think so? Okay, at what presidency does "politics" end and "history" begin? Clinton?

There's no clear line. And what is "liberalism"? It's not a real thing. It's what comes from the University and spreads through all other institutions.
@jurijfedorov @KirkegaardEmil @desiraethinking That's what's real. The institutional nexus. If the Universities were promoting eugenics, that would be twitter's policy. And they'd feel super-strongly about it and would be mocking "save every baby" religious conservatives for their anti-eugenics by-god-try.
@jurijfedorov @KirkegaardEmil @desiraethinking So for "historians" to be "liberal" - of course! They are the heart of the University. What it "liberal" IS the University. It them permeates every institution because every institution is staffed by university-people at all meaningful levels.
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7 Jan
1/ What if "slavery" was just called something else? Blacks worked fewer hours per year than free white farmers, had better nutrition as inferred from height (blacks are actually slightly shorter than whites today), and their life expectancy ratio was roughly the same today.
2/ And their literacy rate was ~20%, higher than most of the world. Certainly higher than black africa

When you actually break down what data there is on slavery, and how most former slaves who had a choice after the civil war actually chose to stay on with their former...
3/ masters, how horrible is this really compared to how most of the world actually was at the time? In Russia, you weren't a "slave", you were a "serf", though every metric of human development was worse than a US slave.
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31 Dec 20
@osbornedynasty @DooKaHa1 They were abolished and new ones formed. You need to slow down and stop leaping to conclusions about what oter people think. Twitter is an extremely limited platform that I only use because it is a network monopoly - one of the newer "elite" structures.
@osbornedynasty @DooKaHa1 As for "traded in", there's no mechanism of "trading in". The people who ended feudalism are white people, and are currently the least controllable by elite institutions (which we can use various proxies to verify).
@osbornedynasty @DooKaHa1 The old land-monopoly governments ("feudalism") were abolished. There was a time where things were very free. Now things are beginning to close again for lots of reasons.

One of which is the dropping of genetic intelligence and importation of more easily controlled populations.
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14 Nov 20
1. Females are more susceptible to the authoritarian view of knowledge (credentialism) and safe-feeling consensus-based decision-making.

In a competitive world, this fails and patriarchies win. A successful patriarchal society then lacks competitors,
2. Females are better at navigating and gaining power WITHIN a society. This doesn't mean actually becoming the nominal leaders (though that sometimes happens), but in making kings out of males with authority/consensus elevating males.
3. Thus sufficiently successful patriarchal society becomes credentialized and heavily based on consensus. It then lacks innovation, everything is incompetent, it becomes suffocating and impossible for smart people to do anything b/c they're trapped in a web of difficulty.
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@A_J_Kerek @HendricksonAm @charlesmurray Two things:
1. That's conditioning. At no other point in history was any kind of race, clan, ethnic exclusivity that was not just a character / behavior filter, seen as immoral. That's something you had to be taught, and at a young formative age.
@A_J_Kerek @HendricksonAm @charlesmurray 2. Models of ethnocentrism-humanitarianism-individualism models show ethnocentrism always wins. IRL it's more complex, but ethnocentrism still mostly won in most of human history. You're telling people to do something that is evolutionarily disadvantageous.
@A_J_Kerek @HendricksonAm @charlesmurray If you're okay with that, fine. But you're creating a powder-keg kept in place by ideological conditioning. As soon as that lid gets lifted, and people return to baseline, you're gonna have something bad.

The solution is SOOO simple. Just keep em' separated.
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