It is kind of a challenge not to be totally driven by which bad takes annoy you most online.
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Replying to @xenocryptsite
A distressing number of my articles or Tweets start with me annoyed about someone's bad take. But this is not the deepest thing to do.
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The other thing is, the bad takes you see that haven't been refuted yet are likely to be the ones from viewpoints you're sympathetic to.
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Like I wouldn't have had to correct the line chart in "13th" if it'd been wrong the other way in a pro-incarceration movie. It'd be a meme!
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Don't be so sure. Nobody corrects misconceptions about race and crime in either the US or Europe.
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Partly it's because there really is a difference, it's just a factor of maybe 1.7 and not the 4+ everyone in the US seems to think it is.
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Partly it's that the main of civil rights in the US, Europe, & Israel doesn't get into these statistical arguments about IQ or crime or w/e.
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There were segments of the mid-2000s science blogosphere that did deal with the Flynn effect, attacking evo-psych, etc...
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...but you get more readers if you do memes about how evo-psych people are all incel men that your followers should laugh at.
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Replying to @alon_levy @xenocryptsite
So for the most part the people arguing that end up forming the leftier element within online rationalism.
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