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Scott Alexander

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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

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    1. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 17 Feb 2018
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      I do think you're motte-and-baileying between "Look at this racist fascist crazy person" and "Well, the research is so complicated that nobody can be SURE this is wrong"

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    2. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 17 Feb 2018
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      I don't know how to argue that I'm motivated more by wanting to be able to discuss scientific research on important topics without being called fascist than by desire to hurt poor people for fun. Seems crazy to me to believe opposite.

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    3. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 17 Feb 2018
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      Your papers agree that something called "criminality" or "antisocial behaviour" is hereditary without bothering to consider how either of those terms are constructed. That's my whole point. You can't get around that just by reasserting the original statement.

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    4. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 17 Feb 2018
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      I don't know why it seems crazy to you that I would suspect you of arguing in bad faith. That seems like special pleading to me. You assume leftists are arguing in bad faith basically all the time.

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    5. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 18 Feb 2018
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      I'm trying to put myself inside your head now. I guess if you think that most people aren't really racist any more, it would seem ridiculous to you that I would even suspect you of being some kind of crazy out-there scientific racist.

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    6. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 18 Feb 2018
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      Whereas in my mind it's like - ah, biological determinism, I know this. For the last couple hundred years, anyone who's said this has been about to do something horrible to the lower classes. I guess this guy could be an exception, but why would I assume that?

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    7. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 18 Feb 2018
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      I agree that fascist is an overstatement. I should have said "guy who is either a basically decent person with some silly ideas or an insane racist, I've never been table to tell and it's puzzling"

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    8. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 18 Feb 2018
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      this is all just a huge distraction from the central question about criminality btw

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    9. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 18 Feb 2018
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      Replying to @circusarmy @slatestarcodex

      also i stand by "brain genious" 100%

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    10. howdy doody‏ @circusarmy 18 Feb 2018
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      scott i would still like to know how the genes know what crime is. are some of the other genes cops?

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      Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 18 Feb 2018
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      I don't know if you're being serious. If you are - this is like "How can genes cause retinoblastoma? Have they been to medical school to learn what it is?"

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        1. Scott Alexander‏ @slatestarcodex 18 Feb 2018
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          On purest level, genes don't cause cancer or crime. They cause proteins to be built differently, which changes the way organs are built, which can lead to cancer or crime or whatever twenty steps down the line.

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