Finally I think it's time we think of race/species as a continuous manifold rather than a hard boundary. The truth is that people vary on a big multidimensional continuum.
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Replying to @RokoMijic
It's really not though.pic.twitter.com/37mTdjl4n3
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
It's a manifold though some parts are sparse or empty at the moment, and there's no hard species boundary, though the missing links are dead.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
You can have a manifold or space where most of the stuff is concentrated into a few areas, but there are also some continuous areas. All people currently happen to be the same species, but that will change in the future as people modify themselves.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
so overall I think it's better to avoid both sides of the species thing; it's really not relevant.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
IOW, I would rather invite an elf into my house who's from a different species, than a criminal human who might murder me.
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Replying to @RokoMijic
The problem is that your means of judging tells of a criminal elf are unconsciously based on tells of a criminal human and those tells go badly wrong when the two are radically different in behavior.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Maybe elves are a bit like east asians (Japanese, Koreans etc) (only moreso) and very rarely commit crime. My point is the species doesn't matter just for the sake of being a species, what matters are the properties we care about.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
And it is true that those properties vary over the manifold of human biodiversity, often in ways that are considered infohazards (things you're not supposed to notice).
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
Go watch some shows about murders and try not to notice that the perpetrators seem to cluster on a particular part of the manifold that we're not supposed to talk about...
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The point isn't how they differ on the trait of "propensity to murder" - not directly. The point is that our social senses are calibrated to notice correlates of 2 or 3 stdv away from the species mean on propensity to murder but blacks 1 stdv or less away are massively dangerous
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @RokoMijic
You're not going to convince people to ignore their social senses unless you convince them that their social senses fail when applied to different species. The latter is literally what the taboo is.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Yeah I mean there's probably some truth to this, probably applies across other races too, I would imagine that far east asians might have trouble reading whites correctly.
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