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No problems were ever solved by saying "this is an offensive discussion", "these are offensive comparisons" or "let's just ignore people who commit crimes because they're not nice anyway" - virtue signalers who believe in thoughtcrime come for @robinhanson twitter.com/search?q=https…
"You can't redistribute sex without socially sanctioned rape!"
Have you ever heard of marriage?
"normative monogamy reduces crime rates, including rape, murder, assault, robbery and fraud, as well as decreasing personal abuses" henrich.fas.harvard.edu/files/henrich/…
The PLO introduced former terrorists to women and gave cash, housing and employment incentives for marrying and having children- "that is how we shut down Black September and eliminated terrorism. It is the only successful case that I know of."
More evidence- rising brideprice prevents young men, especially poor or otherwise marginalized, from marrying. This phenomenon is especially evident in polygamous societies-wealthy men can afford more than one bride. These distortions incentivize violence
I talk about sexual inequality and violence in my latest @jacobite piece linked here
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Ian J Deary on why smart people often question IQ "clever people develop a kind of cognitive noblesse oblige; they know they have won the lottery on a valuable trait, but they think it is bad form to acknowledge it"
Great primer on Intelligence in Cell cell.com/current-biolog…
Some of you think I'm subtweeting Nassim Taleb here. I'm definitely not. If I was trying to psychologically deconstruct why Taleb doesn't believe IQ is valid or important construct, I don't think humility, intellectual or otherwise, would be my first explanation!
I do not dismiss IQ scepticism purely because of motivation. Nor have I implied anything wrong w @nntaleb. In his original IQ thread Taleb questioned motivations and intelligence of IQ endorsers many times. I just said Taleb isn't humble, and he isn't.
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Nonsense is the belief the scientific endeavor can discover nothing true about human nature but simultaneously believing that we can understand culture and harness it to improve the human condition. Culture is an outgrowth of our animal nature rather than an outside cause.
Nonsense is marveling at the hubris of humanity, endorsing environmental harmony but rejecting the insights that seeing humans as animals provides - the only insights to improve our condition. Denigrating the capitalism which has harnessed our animal self interest for benefit.
Nonsense is rejecting the alteration of the biology of our species, rejecting the notion of intelligence. Rejecting gene editing and integration with technology that would improve us as a species because we want to signal we are good, a signaling that is itself deeply primitive.
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I had a fun and wide ranging conversation with @JohnDanaher on evolutionary psychology, sex differences, casual sex, the replication crisis, incels, male violence, porn, and why women don't want sex robots. …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
Women are much less likely to be killed by a sex partner than men are to be killed by other men, especially jealous rivals so why do we keep saying that women are afraid because they are likely to be killed by a casual sex partner? check out 19:30 & 46:43 …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
"Incels are just one example of a group of men who can't get sexual access but men who cannot get sexual access have always represented a much greater threat to society than men with mates" 49:12 …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
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A quick tweetstorm on my latest column, which asks what, in general we should do with people who commit crimes as teens and are caught decades later.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-…
Obviously, this was inspired by the Kavanaugh accusations. During a dinner-table conversation about it, I off-handedly mentioned that at least one man in his fifties had been tried as a juvenile for a crime committed decades ago. Which inspired me to look up the case.
So I wrote it up, and asked, what should happen to someone who killed more than half his lifetime ago?
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Just a quick logic exercise:

IF Donald J. Trump has committed multiple crimes, including money laundering, tax fraud, obstruction of justice, and even collusion with a foreign power,

THEN it is almost certain that investigators know all about that shit by now. (1/x)
And IF the investigators know all about that shit by now,

THEN it’s a certainty that their communications about Trump are expressed in the way you’d communicate about any perp. Things like “We gotta stop this guy.”
THEREFORE: Trump and his people will have an easy time claiming that the investigators are biased.

Because they are.

Government investigators are “biased” against criminal behavior and people who commit crimes.
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After Shadrack Sibiya's threats yesterday, it's about time I reply to him using an Android device with tweets location on. #ShadrackSibiya
It always seemed to me that the greatest threat to our freedoms and lives comes not from people who commit crimes against us, but from the way our Gov tends to respond to that and the way our Gov tends to favour and protect the privileged and connected few #ShadrackSibiya
It's shocking how Criminals like Shadrack Sibiya & Robert McBride are continuing to hold critical positions in public offices, deceiving the public with “I am a victim” stunts while behind the scenes covering each other’s backs & protecting their inner circles criminal networks
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Had a call two days ago with a guy who wanted to go to jail but the store didn’t want to press charges. We can talk about reforms & celebrities & stuff but we were on the side of the road w/a guy in cuffs who wanted to go the jail but we didn’t want to take him. Not that uncommon
We could save so much time, money, and human potential & worth by focusing on what every single western democracy but us focuses on: social welfare. 70% of the 911 calls I go to are angry echoes of sad damage done long ago. We can be a better people. We really can.
So we have this conversation of what to do: he insists he wants to go to jail & will do something else besides stealing to get there; he’s homeless & struggling; he’s drunk so maybe a garbage charge of ‘public drunkenness’ to help him? We can’t just say ‘bye Felicia’. So what??
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It's fashinating: w/ negligible exceptions, almost every single line that you can read on newspapers about Bitcoin & related topics are ABSOLUTELY wrong/false. Not just slightly incorrect or oversimplified: the complete, exact OPPOSITE of reality!
My favourites:
1) "Miners use computers capable of solving VERY COMPLEX computations!"

No, those "computers" solve one of the LEAST COMPLEX you could imagine: just guessing random numbers. Pretty simple. Then they have to check them against a SHA2 function, just like any other non-mining node.
2) "Mining hardware VALIDATES transactions, ensuring they respect Bitcoin's rules!"

No, mining hardware doesn't validate ANYTHING at all. It just receive (hopefully validated) transactions from full nodes: sometimes the farm operator's one, more often the mining pool's one.
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(THREAD) This is Part 2 of a live-read of Michael Wolff's FIRE AND FURY. The thread includes brief excerpts from the book and analysis of what each may mean for the Russia probe. A link to Part 1 of the live-read is in the thread.

Hope you'll check it out and share with others.
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This is a more significant observation than most realize. A primary effect of Trump using Hicks and Jr. as information firewalls—for both emails and direct messages—is that he could pretend he hadn't been involved in anything involving Russia and therefore it'd never happened. 2/
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