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by curi 19y ago
> How can culture cause a disparity between things that the culture doesn't even know about? There is all sorts of knowledge in our traditions, which no individual person understands. So, for example, suppose culture contains a trigger
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by curi 19y ago
Having someone else bear a child for you was an option, millennia ago. It's really not very complicated how to do this: they get pregnant, then give you the child when it is born. That you overlook this demonstrate the power of culture. D
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by curi 19y ago
Why are you assuming tomboys have anything to do with nature?
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by curi 19y ago
We have a culture that (sort of) causes ugly people to get depressed. There is nothing innately depressing about being ugly, the whole idea of being depressed about it, and indeed of what is ugly or pretty, is in our culture. So, our cultur
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by curi 19y ago
I said from the outset that our culture treats men and women differently. That includes, among many other things, what gender of friends they are encouraged to have as young children. Why aren't there more variations in culture on Earth? Fi
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Being a woman in our culture certainly has some advantages.
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by curi 19y ago
You don't need 9 months off -- you can work through a large portion of a pregnancy. Further, for example, you can pay someone else to be pregnant for you. That doesn't cost enough relative to a serious career to make a major difference. And
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by curi 19y ago
Being ugly doesn't cause depression. Though in some cultures ugly people are treated badly, and in some cultures many people have personalities that get depressed when others (wrongly) treat them badly. Now, if you take a culture like that
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by curi 19y ago
I see that with present technology, mothers need a few month vacation per child at the end of pregnancy and for physical recovery after. This is a fairly minor thing, and it is no reason a culture must assign people wildly different roles a
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by curi 19y ago
I know there are many studies to do with genes, I've read a variety of them. If you believe you know of one which answers my challenge, then feel free to cite it. Am I a creationist? Umm, lol. No. If I was, why would i talk about evolution
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by curi 19y ago
As far as I know it has always been the case that people developed a language. For example there are cases where children had been raised in total isolation from society, and they developed their own language (I think even single children)
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by curi 19y ago
the essential issue is obedience. obedient children devote their creativity and effort into doing as their parents and teachers want, such as getting good test scores. one way to try to observe obedience is to look at how harsh conditions p
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by curi 19y ago
There exists no explanation, ever invented, by anyone, which details how a gene could code for complex parts of adult personalities, like femininity. You can make things up like how a hormone might umm somehow affect stuff. But that isn't a
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by curi 19y ago
It's easy to make up and describe a cultural factor that would explain the data. For example, the previous shift was about how adult women were treated in public -- open discrimination. The second shift will come when parents (and others) t
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by curi 19y ago
Are you saying you think all reasonable cultures would deal with (respond to) our biology by treating women in such a way that they don't like to do startups as much as men? What is it about female biology which is so adverse to startups th
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by curi 19y ago
Apes do image processing too; that is from a time before intelligence. The meaning of one's mind being born specialized is that either it's incapable of some functions (not universal), or it's pre-loaded with enough complexity to make some
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by curi 19y ago
You have argued against culture's influence, by saying that, today, there are genetic differences which cause high level personality traits in adults, such as being feminine. I know 15megs is enough to implement intelligence, but how much d
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by curi 19y ago
Here is a kind of evidence you might like: the amount of raw data available for genetic differences is on the order of 15 megabytes. A bit small, isn't it? That's maybe 25 ASCII novels, or fewer if they are long. And we have to fit all diff
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by curi 19y ago
I have provided some arguments (for example, about universality). I have also provided some (as yet unanswered) criticism of the other view. If you don't understand my comments, and wish to, you could ask questions, and I will be happy to e
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by curi 19y ago
Why do fewer women choose to go that route? As you say, it is not because they will be less rewarded if they do. Once they are doing a startup, they can get the same rewards men can. So there is still something to explain here.
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by curi 19y ago
Traditions are complex and it's hard to trace reasons for them. Which they don't always have, in the sense we normally look for -- they don't always have good reasons for why they were designed/intended to help people. So I don't know speci
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by curi 19y ago
The point of the question is that, unless you can answer it (generally, or in particular cases), then it implies that once culture existed, culture met all selection pressures. Men and women do have genetic differences, which they had befor
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by curi 19y ago
Ranks well at what? Standardized test scores? Asian countries in general, and I know about Japan in particular, are very very harsh to students. Test scores up, freedom down. If our children don't put up with that kind of thing, maybe that
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by curi 19y ago
So, your theory is that selection pressure for [various things] resulted in adapted genes. One of the major questions this position has to answer is: why did that selection pressure result in adapted genes instead of adapted memes ? Prim
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by curi 19y ago
If you need to hit modifier keys a lot on a normal keyboard, move your whole hand and press them with your index and middle fingers together, instead of using your pinky.
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by curi 19y ago
Authority of experience, based on anecdotal evidence, is not a valid way to argue scientific issues. Further, you have not addressed well known exceptions to your claims, such as tomboys and males who do not love to be outdoors.
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by curi 19y ago
I'm not trying to blame anyone, but I believe the truth of the matter is that it is caused by culture. I believe the truth is that boys are girls are not wired differently, and their brains do not work differently. One reason to questio
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by curi 19y ago
There are less woman founders because our culture treats men and women differently. And in particular, it is more repressive of females, and cripples their ability to think more, especially in business and technical areas. This is definitel
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by curi 19y ago
I think startups are a good thing, and cultures which highly value being productive are better. Also, what do you mean about people doing what they're good at? That seems to imply white people are genetically inferior at some sports, and bl
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by curi 19y ago
I think it matters because it's a sign of a problem in black and latino cultures, if they create startups at a much lower rate.

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