One of the reasons I have no hope is seeing all these clueless blue check accounts going to bat for a eugenicist because Nerdy White Boy Write Good
It's this same sense of helpless disgust in the pit of my stomach I had seeing the #JeSuisCharlie circlejerk
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Steve fucking Sailer is one of his regular commenters, I mean come the fuck on
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Every Bernie tweet has a bunch of horrible people in the replies and Bernie has never addressed them. What does that say about Bernie?

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what i think outsiders don't get about these people is the degree to which they're driven by a formative emotional experience, one i and many others share: finding your people
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the experience of being painfully smart and painfully lonely in hs, then one day, in college or on the net, finding other nerds who are smart like you and lonely like you and have weird sf interests like you
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So there's distance between Scott and eugenics? So far my impression is that Scott isn't sure about IQ realism or biological determinism and is seeking answers in available studies. Is being sure that these are wrong and bad the prerequisite to not being called a eugenicist?
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There's *rhetorical* distance, if the absurd wink-wink nudge-nudge of the "Kolmogorov complexity" thing was somehow actually opaque to you
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Yup, research on the genetic basis of IQ and behavior should be banned, because the conclusions might not fit with my political philosophy
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Because I don't trust the motives of anyone who's interested in that question and the results could only be used to cause great harm But yeah
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Ah yes, the dude my ex quotes when he wants to challenge medical diagnoses and recommendations with random but "rationally framed" shit he read on the Internet.
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Did you know Scott's friends started a whole fucking grift over this https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/MetaMed
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