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by DuskStar 6y ago
> There aren't big population-level differences, aside from basic cosmetic differences due to genetic drift What lets you assert that? There are most certainly genetic clusters that correspond to "races" - that's how
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Fringe view among geneticists, or fringe view among the public? (And honestly, I'd like to see those criticisms - I'd hate to be defending a guy who's genuinely wrong instead of just politically incorrect, which has been the
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Scientific consensus is pretty heavily on the side of "50+% of within-group variation in intelligence is genetic, the remainder is non-shared environment" (in the US, barring known negative confounders such as fetal alcohol syndro
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> Part of it is being beyond reproach The problem is that he was largely removed for refusing to lie about the state of the science. But the state of the science is not politically acceptable.
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> No. The specific discussion of black-on-black crime is about the idea that nobody is discussing it, which is just false on its face. This is distinct from questioning whether black people are often the victims of crimes committed by ot
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I'm saying that there's a lot of reasons that someone might respond badly to being told that the problem is racism. One is that the problem genuinely might not be racism , as I've tried to say earlier in this thread. Another
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It'll also function just fine on your roof - the issue with population density is just that bandwidth is limited per area, and so there's much lower bandwidth per person in metro areas.
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And "this must have been caused by racism" sounds like motivated reasoning to me! If, instead, police 1. treat people equally when encountered 2. encounter demographics in proportion to the crimes committed by that demographic and
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> I find talking to my conservative friend, he shares all of the concerns about problems with the justice system and inequality, but when I roll it together as "racism" he vehemently objects. If the issue is racism, that means
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Funnily enough, nothing in my comment comes after the "but".
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Oh, wow - that's a fun one!
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Reminds me of "That Alien Message" on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
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Oh, so they just pressured a news site into removing comments with the threat of demonitization - that's so much better.
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Wouldn't the last US interceptor be the YF-12? Even if it was cancelled, it at least made it through flight and missile testing... (The YF-12 took the missile and radar developed for the XF-108 and stuck it into the CIA's new reco
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> Not to mention that I am not convinced these tests strongly correlate with one’s ability to successfully complete an undergrad degree. I'm pretty sure that they do, at least if you're looking at the set of all students and no
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> And that's where I learned the phrase: "Pre-Boost Phase" — hit them in the silos. None of those systems appears to have borne fruit Other than ICBMs, of course. IIRC it took quite a few years for ICBMs to become robust a
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And saying "if only you give the disadvantaged students this they'll perform the same as the rich kids" feels like wishful thinking to me.
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What makes you think that "more funding" would improve outcomes? As far as I'm aware, states that spend more per pupil don't significantly outperform those that spend less...
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> Stop murdering or otherwise harassing black people...? Quick question. How many black people did US police murder last year? Order of magnitude. How many would be few enough for you to say that the police have "stopped" - 100
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> Well, among other things, if you simply poll people and ask about drug use, white people admit to using drugs at higher rates than black people but are punished much much less frequently for it. If I recall correctly, there's a fe
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by DuskStar 6y ago
This reads like "we're behind, not catching up, not making money, and really need an excuse to drop this" to me, but I might just be too cynical.
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Are you trying to say that the LA riots didn't include police brutality? Or just that the violence from the rioters was more extreme than this year's?
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The post I replied to was saying that 2020's riots were different than LA or Orlando because this time "protestors aren't the ones engaging in violence, the cops are". Which seems pretty inaccurate from where I'm st
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I think "single-use missile sled" is actually a USAF project right now, but that's meant to be deployed from a fighter/bomber.
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> > but it's not all them. > Sure, and the other ones look the other way. Totally "good" guys just lettin' bad guys be bad guys. Until the "good" guys start going after and punishing the "few bad
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Well, sure. But if you define "protestor" as "no violence, no looting, no arson", of course the protesters won't do those things.
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I seem to have missed the police setting buildings on fire and beating up shopowners. Not to say that the police haven't committed a ton of violence in these protests, but it's not all them.
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"but that'll lead to more school shootings!", cry the people who've apparently never considered that school shootings are premeditated and the shooters tend not to care about the law.
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Planes have another advantage - endurance. Missiles have greater acceleration and maneuverability, but they can't sustain that for as long as a plane can. Which makes "run away" a solution in certain parts of the engagement e
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Is HBD verboten because it's factually wrong, or because even if it's right it's repugnant to talk about such things? If you believe it's factually wrong, is that belief falsifiable? Is there some sort of study or expe

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