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I listened to Rupert's Joe Rogan podcast and it's sort of clear that Rupert doesn't actually know 20th century British history.

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Joe Rogan starts off by straight up asking Rupert why there are "rape gangs" in the UK and how it's being received.

A minute later, he's talking about Brexit and how it wasn't a "proper Brexit" but he did a good as an MEP fighting for "a kind of" Brexit.

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okay, let's try that again.

Rupert says that "multiculturalism" and the general souring of Europe on nation states because of Napoleon (!!!) caused the rape gangs. He mentions Jean Monnet and Altiero Spinelli.

Joe Rogan asks for clarification and asks whether he thinks multiculturalism was done "on purpose" to diminish nationalism and asks who implemented it.

Lowe answers "European Elites in league with Our Elites" and starts talking about the EEC which Britain joined in 1975. Then starts talking about gold reserves being shipped to Germany, and of course Brexit again.
So Lowe has repeatedly been asked why there are gangs of Pakistani's in Britain who kidnap, drug and rape little girls, and has kept veering off into Brexit land and the EU where he feels more comfortable.

Did the EEC/EU introduce Windrush migrants and Mirpuris into Britain?
Well, no. The EU is basically a complete irrelevance to this phenomenon.

Mirpuri/Pakistani inflows were a British Commonwealth matter, not European. UK governments and employers recruited workers from former colonies to fill gaps.
Most of the foothold of Mirpuris was established before 1973 when Britain joined the EEC, and by then primary labor migration from the Commonwealth had already been heavily restricted by the Commonwealth Immigrants Acts of 1962 and 1968, and the Immigration Act 1971.
In fact, the Immigration Act 1971 can into force on 1 January 1973 - the exact same day the UK joined the EEC. What a coincidence!

It wasn't a coincidence. Informally there was an understanding that for Britain to be allowed into the EEC, it had to cut off the commonwealth. Image
So the act (1971 immigration act) that most strongly limited the Mirpuri Pakistanis from coming into Britain was passed because of the EU (the EEC at the time) and worries that other member states would object to secondary migration from Pakistan to Europe via the UK
Okay, so how did millions of clannish Pakistanis end up in Britain then?

Early immigration from Pakistan had its conceptual origin in the The British Nationality Act 1948, which essentially gave British Citizenship to 450–500 million non-white commonwealth subjects. Image
Wait, what?

They just gave 500 million nonwhite people the legal right to move to Britain?

Well, actually, no. Laws on immigration within the British empire were basically non-existent. Britain was supermajority white in 1947 because moving was hard and expensive.
It was only in 1948 that British Commonwealth citizens actually physically started arriving in the form of the Empire Windrush, which arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex on June 22, 1948 carrying about 800 Carribean Africans. Image
British PathƩ has a newsreel on the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush which looks like something out of a propaganda movie from Fallout designed to give the viewer a deep sense of foreboding about what's going to happen next:
As as these fine young urban scholars began arriving, a group of MPs penned a letter to Clement Atlee warning that immigration of "coloreds" to britain could cause a "racial problem" and "impair social cohesion"

Atlee's letter from 78 years ago is shown below: Image
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Attlee ends his letter saying "I doubt whether there is likely to be a similar large influx"

nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/upl…Image
Fast forward 6 just years to 1954, and the numbers have increased from a few hundred to about 10,000 per year.

Hansard records a parliamentary debate about Jamaican immigration and the looming threat of several hundred million "British Subjects" of "Various races and colors": Image
By 1958, just 10 years after Windrush, the first race riots started happening.

British Pathe editorializes by saying that "opinions differ" on Britain's racial makeup, but that the question shouldn't be settled by violence.

Motives include black males going after white women
Meanwhile, by 1962 there are 8000 Pakistanis in Bradford alone:
By this point, the grooming gangs had probably already started, though awareness of what was happening at the time was minimal.

There are plenty of newspaper reports from the period, though as this is over 60 years ago we'll probably never know the full extent of it. Image
J'accuse has an article on this:

jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-historic…
Meanwhile in the early 1960s in Pakistan, a large civil engineering project - the Mangla Dam - had displaced over 100,000 people and they all had an easy route to resettle in Britain:
There was already some political pushback from Oswald Mosely - he gave a speech in Kensington about how they might deal with the local mass migration of Africans.
But by now, Mosley had enemies who physically beat him and his supporters.

Who were these violent "street leftists"?

These pro-migration street fighters were the "62 group" - financed in part by the Jewish Aid Committee of Britain (JACOB) and other Jewish groups
So by the early 1960s, we already had the full package

- mass immigration due to both push and pull factors
- ethnically English/Scots/Welsh areas being displaced by people from the third world
- major political parties refusing to do anything about it
- far right groups

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- ... and far left groups financed and partially staffed by Jewish and zionist interests like JACOB, AJEX, etc fighting to prevent any effective action against mass immigration

And the native British people being largely apathetic and continuing to vote for the uniparty
The EEC wasn't even founded until January 1, 1958. Between 1945 and the early 1960s, Britain was not part of any of the EU/EEC efforts and even tried to develop and alternative organization - the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

Britain was well out of Europe.
Oh, and I almost forgot - Clement Attlee was a Fabian, just like Andy Burnham Image
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Searchlight grew directly out of the 62 Group, and Searchlight spawned Hope Not Hate which now publishes hit-pieces on my X mutuals Image
We are basically fighting (and losing) exactly the same war as our grandfathers' and great grandfathers' generation.

And no, Rupert, it's not because of Brexit and the EU.

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Jul 9
In the 1950s, small groups of English men were already trying to use violence to force black African immigrants out.

It didn't work.

Contemporary PathƩ newsreel says that "violence isn't the British way to solve this".

So, the implication is that we should have used political and civic institutions to solve the problem.

But how did that go?

Well, it's the 2020s now and we can see that it didn't go very well. These areas of London just got completely colonized by Africans. In fact most of the city is now foreign.

Why?

Clearly something has gone wrong.

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There are two ways to approach this. You can look at the actual history and see a series of events, some of which went badly, aome maybe went well (for a time) and just track the accumulating failure

But to *really* understand this, we need some theory.
If you make a spherical cow model of a group of "victim" organisms being invaded by some group of undesirable outsiders, what happens?

In the extreme limit of no coordination amongst the "victims", they will present almost no resistance.

It's like a massive flock of sheep
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Mar 6
Many people don't understand just how brutal diminishing returns in theoretical physics were.

Physics barely existed before 1820. After 1970, there was essentially nothing left to discover.

In 1819 there were probably less than 100 full-time paid physicists in the whole world.

By 2026 there are probably about a million physicists across academia and industry, and that number was already huge in the 1970s when physics sort of "ended" with QCD and electroweak unification.

A small, brave band of gentlemen-scholars and amateurs worked out the most important parts of physical law in the 1800s. People doing it as a hobby!

Today, vast armies of professionals equipped with supercomputers toil away in the quantum gravity dungeon, unable to make progress.

Diminishing returns are brutal.
And btw, this is despite physics as a discipline being very much recursively self-improving

Physics progress created computers, electricity, electromagnets, etc

There was even back-and-forth recursion between computing tech making better physics and physics making better computers. Not to mention things like refrigerators to cool magnets which become superconductors and then get used in state-of-the-art physics experiments like the LHC.

All of these enormous positive feedbacks were not even remotely enough to overcome the brutal diminishing returns curve of human effort -> new physics.

We still don't know how quantum gravity really works.
Not only that, but we started going backwards.

We cancelled civilian nuclear programs.

We abandoned outer space after Apollo.

We disbanded Concorde & civilian supersonic flight globally.

We began talking about "degrowth", i.e. an ideology of explicitly destroying our own civilization and undoing progress in mastery of the physical world.
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Jan 5
The Truth about IQ

There are so many bad takes about IQ going around.

The normie mind is attracted to bad IQ takes like a junkie to white powder baggies. And yet they don't even know what it actually means!

The biggest misconception about IQ is that it measures intelligence. That's not true! IQ measures only part (admittedly a large part) of one half of intelligence - the fluid component. IQ doesn't measure knowledge, wisdom, rationality, etc. You can have a high IQ on multiple good IQ tests and still be ignorant, unwise and irrational. It's much harder to have a lower IQ (much less than 100) and be wise, knowledgeable and rational but it's not impossible, especially within one or two special domains.

The second big misconception is that the numbering scale is totally made up. There aren't 100 or 150 "IQ points" out there to grab. It's a made up scale that just represents 1/15th of a standard deviation on the frequency distribution of all humans from a relevant population, which is usually taken to be a bell shaped curve with mean 100 and standard deviation 15.

85 IQ = μ - 1 σ
100 IQ = μ + 0 σ
115 IQ = μ + 1 σ
130 IQ = μ + 2 σ
145 IQ = μ + 3 σ

IQ is measured using written tests with many questions, and a large sample of scores from many test takers are used to calibrate the test. I think there's some broad appreciation that the points are "on a curve", but then people will say something like "Imagine if an AI had an IQ of 5 million!"

An IQ of 5 million is ontologically incapable of being meaningful. It would mean a score on tests equal to +300,000 standard deviations, which is simply not something that can exist because it would imply a human population vastly greater than you could fit in the entire universe to even define it.

In practice, you can't really measure IQs above 145 IQ = +3σ that reliably.

The third big big misconception is the idea that when you read or are told an IQ value it must be real. That's not true! People make it up all the time, either by flat out lying or by creatively reinterpreting a childhood IQ test which is not valid as an adult, using a low quality online IQ test which typically 'glazes' your score to make you feel good and share it or by just vibing/repeating rumors. For example, Google reports that John von Neumann has an IQ of 190, corresponding to +6σ. But when you calculate this, it's 1 in 1 billion rarity - obviously no test has been taken by a billion people so you can't know that someone is exactly 1 in 1 billion at it.

This brings us to the fourth and perhaps worst misconception: the idea that IQ is like a power level and the human with the highest number will be the best at everything. That's not true: the people who are best at something will probably have high IQ, but not the highest IQ. There's a great Less Wrong article pointing out why this: when two things are correlated (but not perfectly), the largest value of one thing will not coincide with the largest value of the other thing. This is called "the tails coming apart".

The human obsession with status makes IQ into a status hierarchy, incentivizes people to lie about their IQs to appear "better", and makes people fantasize about smart, capable people having outrageously high IQs that are impossible to even measure and statistically extremely unlikely to be true. Then in reaction to this, some people start denying that IQ even exists, talking about "multiple intelligences" which is pseudoscientific bunk, and makes people sad and angry about IQ as a subject.Image
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Why the tails come apart:

lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nS…
Oh, and one final misconception I missed.

The average IQ (globally) isn't 100; it's about 85, where the reference population for the mean is white westerners (Anglo/German etc).

So if you have an IQ of (say) 95, you are still most of a standard deviation above the average person in the world.
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Jul 18, 2025
I've been getting into the Three Body Problem universe and Dark Forest theory.

It's unbelievably stupid. Completely unrealistic, bad game theory and silly physics.

But people really do seem to take it seriously?

It seems like it needs debunking...
Here's why Dark Forest/Three Body Problem game theory is stupid.

Hiding doesn't make sense in a universe with a finite (and slow!) speed of light.

What does make sense is expansion.

Essentially the finite speed of light already hides you.

Our Galaxy contains 10^11 stars and is 90,000 light years or about 10^18 km across.

Assuming that there is an alien civilization hiding on the other side of the galaxy, it would take it at least 180,000 years for it to notice you exist and mount a response. It is not physically possible to respond faster than that. 90,000 for the light to cross the galaxy and at least 90,000 for the response to cross back.

In that time, Earth would almost certainly have developed its own interstellar colonization technology. We already have the plans - Project Orion etc - were developed in the 1960s but our small industrial base and population made it prohibitively expensive.

With colonization technology that travels at say 5% of the speed of light, we could colonize a decent chunk of the galaxy - say 10% of it - by the time any response from a distant hostile world arrives. That means we would have 10^10 star systems under our control with many, many probes on the way to colonize the rest of the galaxy.

Any kind of weapon system that relies on the matter and energy of one single star wouldn't be able to do anything against that.

Realizing this massive advantage to colonizers, nobody would even bother hiding.

So the *actual* game thoeoretic equilibrium strategy is that everyone expands as fast as possible.
Now you can try to posit that life is much more common so the nearest civilization is actually very close.

But this doesn't make sense because if intelligent, spacefaring life is very common then someone would have been early and they would have known that they were early. So the earliest civs just would have colonized everything. Since we exist at all, we can basically rule this out (and no, we're not early)

So life is almost certainly rare within any given Galaxy.

You can also posit uncertainty about the rarity of life, but over even the next few hundred years (which is basically nothing on a cosmic timescale) we'll probably perfect the science and astronomy well enough that we can really nail the numbers down. We'll build megastructure telescopes tens of thousands of kilometres wide out in space, we can use our sun as a gravitational lens too. With these advanced telescopes we could actually resolve a feature 30m across at a 100 light-year distance, meaning things like buildings or flocks of animals or small coppices of trees are visible on solar systems that are 100ly away.

We could resolve 500m-across features out to 1500ly, which is enough to see things like cities, open pit mines, etc and definitively confirm or falsify technological civilization. And we can build that telescope in a lot less than 1500 years; likely within 100 years based on current technological progress.

So if some civilization is trying to "hide" by just staying on their on their own planet and not sending out any radio signals, and they are within 1500 ly, you will definitely be able to see their cities. I suppose you could bury all the cities underground, but that isn't going to help if you spend hundreds or thousands of years with visible cities before you invent astronomy. People watching will already have your planet under constant observation because they will have picked up the biosignatures millions of years ago and just kept watching it.

Basically you can't really hide even an iron-age civilization from observation by telescopes within 1000 light years, never mind an industrial age civ. If you are still alive when you reach spaceflight, that's pretty strong evidence that there are no hostiles in your part of the galaxy, so it is safe to expand outwards.
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Jun 20, 2025
People are getting mad at this but I don't understand why.

Land should be auctioned off, obviously.
I went to the BLM website to see whether this land is some kind of amazing natural paradise.

Here are some pics: Image
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May 26, 2025
Back in February I looked into getting an air purifier to improve my sleep and health, and after some research I spent about £350 on a Dyson air purifier/bladeless fan with a HEPA filter.

It is now three months later and I'm going to review the experience.

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Overall, the experiment was a disaster and have negatively impacted my health in.

Why?

Counterintuitively, this is because the air purifier actually made the air in my room dirtier.

How can that be?

Well, it turns out that these filters quickly fill up with stuff!
When you put a filter in a room and pass air through it, you are effectively creating a sponge for air pollution, and as that sponge fills up (which happens quite fast) it starts to re-emit at least some fraction of what is stored until it is actually blowing out dirty air. Image
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