It's kind of creepy if she actually seriously believes that this will guarantee her kids to share the guy's positive qualities, especially intangible and indefinable ones like "intelligence"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RafFaithfull and
@arthur_affect The degree to which you’re missing the point is honestly astonishing.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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No, actually, I think I get the point of all of this discourse really fucking well, and most of those low-IQ masses get it too, and you're just uncomfortable with the game-theoretic strategy we have opted for in responsehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1275721667126460418?s=19 …
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Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affectReplying to @arthur_affect @cowtung @banalexistence"White men built this civilization and you aren't fit to run it, if we let you be in charge there will be nothing but famine and collapse" "I don't care about this debate and I don't care if that's true You will give me the respect I demand or I will crash this plane"2 replies 2 retweets 20 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @RafFaithfull and
Several things you’ve said above demonstrate that you don’t know basic evolutionary theory.
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Replying to @humbug1994 @RafFaithfull and
Evolution is a lie, God created Adam and Eve from dust in the Garden of Eden in the year 4004 BC
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Yup, just like seeking a mate with positive attributes doesn’t increase the likelihood that your offspring will have these attributes. (Hint: all of evolutionary theory rests on this truth) https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1275999655025733632?s=21 … https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1275999655025733632 …
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Replying to @humbug1994 @arthur_affect and
You embarrassingly tried to strawman it by using language like “this will guarantee her kids...”
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Replying to @humbug1994 @arthur_affect and
We're mixing several things together here: (1) picking a mate because you like them (2) wanting your kids to inherit some of the things you like about them (3) believing in objectively "good" traits (the "eu" in "eugenics") that you're deliberately "breeding for" in your kids
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Replying to @vjpsyverson @humbug1994 and
He’s not mixing any of those things
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Replying to @RafFaithfull @humbug1994 and
Your hypothetical: "If a woman wants to have babies with the smartest and most attractive man she can find..." I'm trying to extract the reason why. Some of the reasons seem to me like they'd conceivably be creepy; others, not. That's what I'm trying to unmix.
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"Eugenics" is a CONSCIOUS BELIEF SYSTEM It's not a general description of things that happen in the world, and by diluting it down like that you're engaging in Scott's favorite fallacy, the motte-and-bailey fallacy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vjpsyverson and
Moreover, the statement that "everyone engages in eugenics *whether or not they know it*" is itself an expression of the eugenicist belief system and therefore not falsifiable except by falsifying eugenics itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RafFaithfull and
so I'm mostly here in this thread because I'm an evolutionary biologist and thought that perspective might be useful
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