lyssa17

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by lyssa17 6y ago
This is honestly such a disappointment. I used to appreciate your thoughts on a lot of issues and particularly loved that you were in the intersection of haskell and harry potter fanfic. Venkatesh Rao is generally contentless and writes lon
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by lyssa17 6y ago
Yep. Recent debunking (once again) of their canon by Kevin Bird in an article titled "No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection" https:&
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Scott Alexander's email shows staunch support for scientific-racism a.k.a. “HBD”(twitter.com)
31 points by lyssa17 6y ago|13 comments
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by lyssa17 6y ago
Imagine writing all these words when 14 would do.
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by lyssa17 6y ago
https://books.google.com/books?id=wtQkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA235&lpg=...
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by lyssa17 6y ago
hello! friendly invite to say hi on reddit if you like :) /u/foobanana
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by lyssa17 6y ago
hey, are you on reddit memexy? i'm /u/foobanana, ping me if you are. admire your attempts at reasoning with the unreasonable here.
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by lyssa17 6y ago
Yes, actually. It's a theme that Scott is annoyingly fond of, in his fiction and non-fiction. Unsong is entirely about kabbalistic puzzles as you know. Scott and others before him were enamored with the ideas of Leo Strauss. You can re
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by lyssa17 7y ago
Let me get this straight, you contend that we should believe that Shalizi is an unreliable source and your justification is a post on a "human bio-diversity" blog run by white supremacist and anti-semite John Fuerst amongst others
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by lyssa17 7y ago
The pre-natal environment is shared, and depending on the adoption process there could be a great deal of correlation in a range of environmental factors. It's not like these kids are grown in a vat and distributed randomly in the popu
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by lyssa17 10y ago
Ah I see. Didn't realize you were referring to a private one.
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by lyssa17 10y ago
Wait, which is that?
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by lyssa17 10y ago
"Folks with ADHD" ADHD symptoms are a matter of degree in most individuals so presenting it as a binary is a fallacy. The vast majority of people can experience some benefits from some dose of stimulants (see the widespread use of
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by lyssa17 10y ago
It effects people without ADHD the same way it effects people with it. The only difference is that people with ADHD have a lot more to gain from taking them then someone without it. (Keep in mind that stimulants can have negative effects to