You're just gonna call him a eugenicist with no citation? Who told you that and why do you believe them?
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Replying to @cowtung
His blog, and because I'm a mindkilled low-decoupling conflict theorist
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Replying to @arthur_affect
This sounds a lot like you are lazily slandering someone in order to avoid having to treat them as a human being. I'm open to Scott being a dirty eugenicist. I haven't read his whole blog, just parts of it. Make the case for real.
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Replying to @cowtung
Yes, that's what a low-decoupling conflict theorist does, keep up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung
Arthur Chu Retweeted Aster, internet archaeologist
If you're actually interested in receipts someone with more time than me to go through the laborious process of indirectly searching shit on http://archive.org has done sohttps://twitter.com/RiotAtArbys/status/1275505026824273922?s=19 …
Arthur Chu added,
Aster, internet archaeologist @ArsonAtDennys@AcausalG@davidgerard@RationalWiki Any of y’all want to do a separate thread on these or should I? Remember the ones? Pretty sure they’re on http://archive.org This was a “well aCtUaLLy the data shows the black race commits more crimes so it’s highly logical etc etc” https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1275504294796636166 …3 replies 14 retweets 113 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung
But, in general, I don't think it's possible to be passingly familiar with Scott's blog and not know that one of his hobbyhorses is "IQ realism" and biological determinism, and the distance between this and eugenics is at best a hairsbreadth
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @cowtung
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung
And yeah, actually, I'm willing to say that it is
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Replying to @arthur_affect
This sounds like working backwards from "eugenics is bad" (which we can all agree on) to "any notion that might be used to justify eugenics is false". Do you really think Scott secretly wants to selectively breed humans, and that wish is preventing him from seeing basic truths?
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I don't actually care what he believes, I think his words are harmful and it is urgent that they be opposed and if possible silenced
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung
When I said I was a low-decoupling conflict theorist I meant it, you people never listen
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm sorry, I don't know what that is. I'm just a dude who read some of his blog and thought he was making an honest attempt at parsing through studies I'd never have the time or intelligence to parse through myself. He seems to have waded into some shit, but not too damning, IMO.
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