Oh, c'mon. You seriously don't think the suite of traits bundled as "adventurousness" has any hereditary component?
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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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Yes, the argument might rely on sending people to the colonies not always being a form of culling, someone starting in life might have both options available, the option of going to the colonies being higher risk but potentially higher pay off, in that sense it.........
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...would be selecting for higher risk tolerance, a component of adventurousness
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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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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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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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