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by jlawson 1y ago
Can you expand on "that's just dumb"? I don't understand what argument this is trying to make. All people have different brains; some are very low-intelligence and impulsive by nature and training, and this can apply at
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by jlawson 1y ago
No, you misunderstood. I am describing [taking part of the whole] not [simplifying the whole] - is that clearer?
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by jlawson 1y ago
Neurons are pretty simple too. Any arbitrarily complex system must be made of simpler components, recursively down to arbitrary levels of simplicity. If you zoom in enough everything is dumb.
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by jlawson 2y ago
Google's own figures say Whites are not the largest group. Yes, Whites face systemic oppression by any definition of the word. For example, hiring systems set up that systemically prefer others over them.
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by jlawson 2y ago
> The dominant culture is essentially the "default" and is somewhat "self-reinforcing", so generally has no need of an identity-based support group. Thus, when the dominant culture does establish an identity-based gro
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by jlawson 2y ago
Quantum entanglement ("spooky action at a distance") doesn't allow for communication, so there's no causality between the particles.
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by jlawson 2y ago
Google is like 45% white, 45% Asian. Asians have an ERG. If Whites want to make an ERG, why can't they? What is special about Whites that they must be prevented from doing the thing that literally all others have done?
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by jlawson 2y ago
>What would an ERG for white people even do? What would you want from it? The exact same thing as anyone of any other group of course. To be clear, Whites are a minority at Google. They are also not even the largest group. (Not that this
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by jlawson 2y ago
This is easy to say when it's someone you like, not so much when it's someone you don't. Do you also think a foreigner should be allowed to openly advocate for Nazism while on a green card, without consequence?
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by jlawson 2y ago
It's been proven in the developed world too. It's been proven with children of rich families who become dependent. It's been proven with poor communities who become dependent. Most people don't do anything productive if
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by jlawson 2y ago
If you set your 'center' at your personal position, instead of the center of the population as a whole, you get weird results. I.e. to someone else, Fox News isn't advocating to deport all non-whites, therefore they're j
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by jlawson 2y ago
Let's look it up together. Musk has approximately doubled X's profits from 0.68B to 1.25B. [0] article quote: "During the last full year prior to Musk’s takeover, Twitter reported adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, ta
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by jlawson 2y ago
And it "I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life" was the entire thing JD said that would matter, but it's not everything he said. You're literally just deleting the important part of
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by jlawson 2y ago
No, you're lying by extracting context. Here's what he said. Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists
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by jlawson 2y ago
> As soon as one of them (age 25!) was discovered to have written some blatantly racist remarks, the narrative flipped to pleas to forgive them because they’re just kids. Yeah, you just made that up. The "narrative" about the 2
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by jlawson 2y ago
Revenue went down a lot less than expenses. So yes, profits went up a ton and are now positioned to go up even more as revenue recovers and the tech keeps functioning. The revenue reduction was also more related to political positioning&#x2
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by jlawson 2y ago
Isn't that just because there is a practical limit to how bad at chess someone can be? That is to say, making utterly random moves. But there is no limit to how good they can be. So of course the right tail is longer; the left tail is
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by jlawson 2y ago
"Number of genes is large" is what I said, that's not a missing assumption, I said that explicitly. The nurture/nature relationship to IQ has been well-studied for many decades. There are easy and obvious ways to figure
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by jlawson 2y ago
All polygenic traits would be Gaussian by default under the simplest assumptions. E.g. if there are N loci, and each locus has X alleles, and some of those alleles increase the trait more than others, the trait will ultimately present in a
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by jlawson 2y ago
Really depends how much money you want to spend and if you're willing to wait a bit longer for Starship orbital refueling to be tested. We could build a more or less arbitrarily large rocket in orbit by adding more and more fuel. More
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by jlawson 2y ago
>The fact that people can decide they’re not trans is not particularly material. This is very uncommon. You really lost us with this. Many, MANY people dally with the idea of being trans and decide it's not for them. This is extreme
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by jlawson 2y ago
How many universities are run by the conservative/evangelical wing of the US political spectrum?
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by jlawson 2y ago
The data is poor quality. It's not like you can randomize who gets a sex change operation. And there are major issues with even knowing who to count when people can just decide they're not trans any more. All the research on this
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by jlawson 2y ago
The people who control Egypt now conquered it 1400 years ago and deliberately destroyed all the cultures that existed before them. Ancient treasures created by those predecessor cultures are not owned by the people who destroyed the culture
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by jlawson 2y ago
>No one is stoping you from hosting your own platform based on what ever nonsense you make up. They actually are. CloudFlare will block you, Visa will refuse payments, Google will delist you, Apple app store will delist your app, and you
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by jlawson 2y ago
Alternatives: foundation, plumbing, substructure, support work, support structure, backend, sustainability, backstage, logistics
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by jlawson 2y ago
Because it's not just equivocation. Read more of the actual original definition/usage of motte-and-bailey. Motte-and-bailey isn't just an argumentative form, it's also a political strategy . It's people pushing&#x2
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by jlawson 2y ago
If someone in my home is daily screaming at me, shitting on the floor, stealing things and threatening children - they're going. Roommate, relative, doesn't matter. They're out, or I am. Someone's claim to live in a good
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by jlawson 2y ago
Always terrifying when a utopian and deadly policy is enacted, and leads to more horror and death, and its proponents just insist that we didn't enact it hard enough and demand to go even deeper. There's mountains of skulls that w
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by jlawson 2y ago
And yet you do it every day when you decide who to associate with and invite into your life and home. Why can't the community do the same thing you do personally?

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