"I am not interested in defending my daughter in any way." -- We knew that already.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Been thinking about how the Malthusian grinder, while good for IQ, also spreads pathological agreeableness to authority.
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Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness
Why are all the high IQ populations from agricultural regions?
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I've skimmed it, and not trying to impress
@Outsideness, but the thesis seems to be running into a Chinese problem.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @The_WGD @Outsideness
Farewell to Alms thesis? Running into that problem how?
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Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness
Wasn't it about capitalistic genes pooling in the UK? It's been a while...
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Replying to @The_WGD @Outsideness
The part I'm talking about is simply that in Malthusian situations, the poor and dumb don't proliferate and aristocrat kids proliferate down
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Replying to @Alrenous
Unless you have chronic, brutal downward social mobility, you have dysgenic deterioration. Understandably, it's hard for people to take.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
Well, CRISPR should fix that for us, shouldn't it?
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Except the frame within which biotech is implemented just pushes the Darwinian grinding-stones up a level. ....
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... You think we'll get it right? That's roughly as probable as an organism coming out right. Harsh trial-and-error (alone) makes it happen.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
... "There has to be a way to reach good outcomes without a horror story of experimental butchery, doesn't there?" -- No.
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