there was an old russian dude on pre-collapse LW who talked about the air gap between western and soviet science - one such difference was that the soviets had a theory explaining the existence of biological sex + higher male variance, whereas the west didn'thttps://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1038180594130202624 …
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...other than the red queen hypothesis, which is weak as hell and not at all scientifically satisfying. i looked up the guy credited with developing the theory (vigen geodakyan) on wikipedia—and he had a page! pretty short tho, didn't seem like anyone in the west paid attention
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later on, the page was deleted because like four people decided he "wasn't notable". i'm sure that didn't have anything to do with his conclusions lmao
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Was that the same guy who claimed that Soviet scientific consensus on petroleum formation was that it abiotic? (I never tried to confirm or deny this)
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yeah, eugine nier. good guy, shame he tried to kill LW long after it was beyond saving. tho he realized before i did
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