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by sfblah 3y ago
I'm well aware that twin studies strongly suggest IQ is largely genetic. What I don't understand is how folks can't see that the mainstream view that IQ is environmental is at odds with the content of the OP study.
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by sfblah 3y ago
Sure, though I'd think it would implicitly teach those things. It's difficult to write a coherent essay or solve a physics problem without critical thinking and logic.
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by sfblah 3y ago
I don't think you can be right about that, because if you believe IQ is largely genetic, that demolishes a whole bunch of things like "institutional racism" that I think is mainstream (or at least CNN tells me it is).
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by sfblah 3y ago
I genuinely don't understand how analyses like this one are taken at face value but then media turns around and argues that IQ is primarily a result of environmental, not genetic factors. If it's environmental, then shouldn't
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by sfblah 3y ago
100k honestly isn’t that much, and PhDs can be sort of meaningless depending on the field. Make it 250k for 3 consecutive years and forget about school.
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by sfblah 3y ago
How about: “Has had a job for 3 consecutive years paying $250k or more per year and has paid federal income taxes proving it.” I know plenty of people in this boat from India who wait 15 years to get a GC because of our idiotic process.
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by sfblah 3y ago
It seems like this effect should be measurable in some kind of principled way. Also, there are some crimes that haven't been decriminalized and are hard to sweep under the carpet (murder, manslaughter, etc). Are there trends for tho
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by sfblah 3y ago
I think people can rely on the authors to put the main results in the "Main results" section. What they can't rely on is potential nutters in Internet forums.
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by sfblah 3y ago
Occam's razor here is that your interest in masks is a mental illness, and not because someone in your family is so immunocompromised or whatever that the mask is standing between that person and certain death. Is it possible that the
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by sfblah 3y ago
I wish what you were saying were true, but it just isn't. I'm a fairly serious runner -- 40-60 miles per week typically. The amount of nonsense I experienced during that year might surprise you. Dozens of different times I was yel
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by sfblah 3y ago
There’s a fine line between a policy being intended to harm and just being stupid. Regardless of the rationale, I was just trying to demonstrate how such policies were in fact weaponized. You can do some reading about the Bay Area and debat
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by sfblah 3y ago
I would encourage readers to read the “Main results” section of the review for themselves. It takes under 5 minutes. Don’t trust a commenter on any online forum on this topic (myself included), as it’s completely politicized.
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by sfblah 3y ago
This is the problem with mask absolutists. They take data from masks that are super effective (hospital setting, correct usage, basically gluing the mask to your face) and extrapolate it to some guy on the subway with a cloth mask. It’s a b
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by sfblah 3y ago
Where I live, in Alameda County, California, masks were required outdoors if you were within 30 feet of another person. This ridiculous policy lasted about a year and provoked all kinds of altercations. It also made exercise, a key way to s
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by sfblah 3y ago
There are good studies on viral load reduction from masking with flu viruses from before 2020. After 2020 the topic became politicized so the studies are probably unreliable.
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by sfblah 3y ago
What you said isn’t controversial. It’s definitely right. The issue with masks is one side started treating them like a talisman that makes infection impossible, which provoked the other side to say they do nothing. On a population level, m
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by sfblah 3y ago
Couldn't you just let it generate the voltage and then dissipate it as heat?
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by sfblah 3y ago
What are the most promising commercial startups in the space in your opinion?
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by sfblah 3y ago
I do think it's time to have a conversation about the maximum assets a non-profit can have under the control of a single group of individuals. I think a reasonable maximum is $1B, beyond which entities would be taxed.
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by sfblah 3y ago
I have a 13 and a 15 year old, and my opinion is it's the phones.
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by sfblah 3y ago
Let's assume for sake of argument that the author's thesis is more or less accurate. What types of BS jobs will the GAI revolution produce? I'm assuming the thesis can be extended to suggest the same thing will happen as with
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by sfblah 3y ago
My experience: Essentially all consumer language learning apps are only useful for learning up to maybe CEFR A2 or B1. That makes sense, because that's all the typical consumer has patience for. Going beyond this basically requires hir
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by sfblah 4y ago
I think what this is all saying is that we call "intelligence" requires _both_ genetics and environment. So, you have the following truth table (very simplified obviously): * Good genetics, bad environment = bad outcome * Bad gene
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by sfblah 4y ago
I can do the same character assassination on Turkheimer. His own Wikipedia page says he supports the "the radical scientific left" and that his 2003 study that you're probably quoting failed to replicate. Here's a nice t
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by sfblah 4y ago
Well, thankfully for you, you're getting your wish. For more than 50 years social policies in the west have been built around exactly your claims. And it's a dismal failure. Inequality is growing, not shrinking. These solutions wo
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by sfblah 4y ago
They don't measure the same statistic, but they correlate. You're selectively citing research on adoption. In fact, there's plenty of research showing that gains are transitory and parental IQ is a better predictor of IQ in l
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by sfblah 4y ago
Oh you didn't know why it was happening either. If you had, you would have just told me.
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by sfblah 4y ago
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/genetics-di... I quote, from the National Cancer Institute (a scientific institution you may have heard of): "The proportion of variation in a population trait
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by sfblah 4y ago
Before this thread I didn't even know who Richard Lynn was. Now I do, but I don't care. Look, I gave you the etymology of the word and the current definition. Both disagree with your wokeism. This is getting tiresome.
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by sfblah 4y ago
It's a completely reasonable feature. I was just reacting to this dude whose goal appears just to be to contradict anything I said. I provided a screenshot. My experience was real and valid (like my experience of having a genetically h

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