there probably is, but I wouldn't expect that pattern to be all that flattering to anyone involved, colonizers being at the same time people who mastered new and unknown challenges and people who were incapable of making it in their countries of origin
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Yeah, my overall point is, the notion of the superiority of colonists due to higher rates of 'culling' fails bc it doesn't take into account how sending folks off to the colonies is itself a form of culling, and one that diverts the actual elimination to an indigenous third party
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that may be a factor, but I'd say one of rather questionable significance. to escalate a bit more, I don't think the success of colonial societies can be explained at all without trashing the vulgar social darwinist assumption of context-independent adaptiveness
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Replying to @adornofthagn @thomasmurphy__ and
What does "context-independent adaptiveness" even mean?
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whatever it is that people who'd -at best- end up in moldbug's virtual option supposedly lack I guess
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Replying to @adornofthagn @thomasmurphy__ and
Is this "context-independent adaptiveness" stuff a circuitous way of talking about Spearman's general factor?
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... If so, I at least then get what we're disagreeing about.
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