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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The baseball game in the image wouldn't be worth if equality of outcome were the rule for baseball team tryouts. The entire game is based on fair competition under the rules pushing participants toward excellence. Inequality of outcome
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Right, and unwillingness to consider the possibility of group differences comes from a quasi-religious devotion to the blank slate model of human nature. The way radical egalitarians see it, we're not only equal in dignity, but in pote
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Favoring fair outcome over having fair rules is against everything I believe. We should not strive for a participation trophy culture.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Why are you using biased mathematics? If statistics and the scientific method (the tools through which dead white men continue to colonize) give us obviously problematic results, we should abandon them in favor of a method of inquiry that p
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Evolutionary biology is absolutely a hard science. It's rooted in both empirical evidence and models derived from statistics and game theory. You haven't presented an argument: you've presented a fear-based assertion. I absol
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Willful ignorance of the natural world has never led to anything good for humanity. That we have to ban certain lines of inquiry because we might not like the answers is positively medieval. As a technologist, I find the idea abhorrent.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
So it's okay to conduct research so long as you like the findings? Read the books mentioned in this thread and others. IQ is 60-80% heritable. Of course there are environmental effects (consider, say, fetal alcohol syndrome), but for t
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
My gut supports group differences in intelligence. As Heinlein once wrote, if intelligence weren't heritable, you could teach calculus to a horse. It takes the entire intellectual edifice of modern radical egalitarianism to rob peopl
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
It's like trying to debug a SIGSEGV when you hold an unshakable religious belief that a certain pointer cannot be NULL. If your debugger tells you it's NULL, the debugger is biased, or at least is unconsciously exhibiting its page
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Well, hypervisors and OS kernels are largely mirrors of each other, and it doesn't make architecturally to have both. Some people, like the creator of this project, favor squeezing out the OS kernel. Other people, like the LXC people,
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Low-carbohydrate diets are supposed to decrease calorie intake without reducing satiation. They've been around for 50 years. They may work for individual people, but they do not work at scale as a public health measure. Why is this con
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Your comment is constructive and contributes to the conversation.
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That's true. These plans, properly followed, work as advertised. That's physics. The trouble is that most people do not follow this plans, and after 40 years of trying to show otherwise, we now know that this situation isn't
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Yes, that's you. Go outside. Look around. Do you think we _as_ _a_ _population_ can maintain diets? The existence of rare outliers (and anorexics) does not disprove the bloody obvious conclusion that at population scale telling people
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Are you at all overweight right now? (The majority of Americans are.) so, your claim is self-refuting.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
There are lots of approaches to eliminating excess CO2 that we could talk about if people like you didn't reflexively smear technology as some great devil. Voluntary CO2 emission reduction looks so far like a doomed effort that goes ag
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
And the universal increase in obesity in the west doesn't matter? The idea that voluntary dietary restrictions might have any effect on public health is ludicrous. If that strategy could work, it would have already worked. Do you thi
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
If there had been a major war, you'd have seen them come right back. It's not as if the Japanese simply forgot how to make the things during the Edo period.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> The public is scared of genetic engineering. And nuclear power, and geo-engineering. Public hysteria is placing us at great risk on numerous fronts. Ultimately, though, I'm optimistic. Not once in human history has anyone been abl
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to actually maintain a low-calorie diet? It's simply not a realistic option for most people. Yes, with sufficient willpower, it'd be possible in theory, but that's like saying that una
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Your cells dividing indefinitely is not the opposite of aging, it's cancer. Look at it this way: the Hayflick Limit on cellular replication limits act as a fail-safe in case other growth inhibition mechanisms fail. If a liver cell
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You have to admit that FDA approval can be onerous, and that a "mad scientist" way of demonstrating technology can be an effective way to build public demand. Consider another technology: safe, effective, and reversible male birth
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> And better metrics, such as mapping human networks from email exchanges I don't think this metric survives Goodhart's Law. It's too easy to game. > I guess the condensed version would be: understand humans better. It
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Once you actually decide to take responsibility for your own speech. I accept responsibility for the content of my speech. I do not accept responsibility for feelings of offense others may feel in response to my speech. It's not m
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> On the contrary, most of those who are interested in addressing gender imbalances in fields like computer science are simultaneously interested in addressing the gender imbalances in "unsexy" jobs, since these are just two si
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> CS culture is one which is overtly and unnecessarily hostile to women...men frequently engage in behaviors that are hostile, threatening, and demeaning to women Many people repeat this claim, but I don't think it's true.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
He means Model View Culture: [1] https://modelviewculture.com/ I think.
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> I'd say the next big battle in workplace equality is going to focus on treating introversion fairly. What do you think such an effort would look like? One problem is that in big companies, it's frequently not enough to do goo
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> bitch Unfortunately, that's how college kids talk. I wish they wouldn't be so crude, but the language isn't CS-specific. That women in general are doing so well in college in general relative to men suggests crude langua
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I think part of the devaluation of emotion is the nature of the work. The computer doesn't care that you've had a bad day. The computer doesn't care that your kid is sick. The computer doesn't care that you're behin

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