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-... and that's the book review that I would _prefer_ to write. A social-science review of a social-science book, for social-science nerds, in a world that wasn't _about to end_. Let me explain.
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-When scholars like Murray write about intelligence, they're talking about the differences _between_ humans.
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-[What I actually care about: the intelligence explosion; the alignment problem might be solvable by von Neumann clones; a civilization at our tech level with a more functional state religion that wasn't afraid of genetics would be able to produce them faster than we will; this is really bad guys]
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-[shut down tribalist thinking: it's not like white people (or even Jews) are the pinnicle of creation; imagine the space of possible minds and consider psychic unity and know how puny we all are]
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-[amplifying ancestry differences
-https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/super-gaels/]
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-group diff studies
-https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2019/01/what-you-cant-say-genetic-group-difference-edition/
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-[the nutritional mismatch hypothesis]
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-[Cognitive Creationism, Dodging Darwin, &c.]
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-[the Georgetown law professor thing: "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks."—this is actually a very straightforward consequence of affirmative action (even if you don't believe in a genetic gap); it should be possible to reason about
-https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/12/georgetown-terminates-law-professor-reprehensible-comments-about-black-students
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-"rotation" of the class axis, as people sort by cognitive ability directly rather than race??
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-Paul Christiano abstract story about what kind of agents steer the future
-https://rationalaltruist.com/2013/02/27/why-will-they-be-happy/
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-https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-america-is-flunking-math-education
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-https://www.unz.com/isteve/nature-tackling-systemic-racism-requires-the-system-of-science-to-change/
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-https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-not-so-great-reset-rolls-on/
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-I read everything I could about the James Watson affair in 2007
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-The debate never advances; Arthur Jensen on the Phil Donahue show
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtoqK1gsmHI
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-"Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good?" (No!)
-https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2021-brown.pdf
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-https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2017/3/13/21111588/it-s-official-new-york-s-prospective-teachers-will-no-longer-have-to-pass-controversial-literacy-exa
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-For the Singularity https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/05/the-artificial-life-taboo-in-biology.html
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-From my notebook circa November 2007—
-I think I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm male all the way down, no matter what I say or do or even feel. This is hard to deal with because my <<policies are based on the fact that>> I'm special or the Difference is trivial. <<Whereas all the testing says not really.>> (But I've _always_ been <<inherently gloomy>>)
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-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
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-https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
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-"No causal associations between childhood family income and subsequent psychiatric disorders, substance misuse and violent crime arrests"
-https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyab099/6288123
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-https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak
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-https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/sperm-counts-decline-fertility-science-white-nationalism.html
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-https://dynomight.net/are-tests-irrelevant/
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-https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-psychopathic-problem-of-the-white
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-It's going to be the future soon; things aren't always going to be like this
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-https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1229060502984306689
-> For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work. Just as we breed cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher. But heaven forbid that we should do it.
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-> While a limited form of selection in humans is acceptable—for example, preventing a couple who are carriers of a recessive genetic defect or disease from producing an offspring with that condition—the kind of wholesale and directed selective breeding of humans suggested by the word "eugenics" is immoral, and I don't favor it at all.
-https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/discovery-institute-makes-hay-of-dawkins-tweet-and-a-geneticist-mistakenly-says-that-artificial-selection-wont-work-in-humans/
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-> I hold eugenics to be completely immoral and we should not attempt to implement it.
-https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1229890352275955713
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-https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838/
-https://biohackinfo.com/news-china-gene-editing-criminal-law-article-336-march-2021/
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
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-https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/even-during-a-reckoning-mind-reading
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-https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/left-targets-testing-gifted-programs/619315/
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-> I don't want to hear about black thugs raping white women, but I'm going to hear it soon if you don't stop talking about white cops killing black kids
-Glenn Loury on Tucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuPdPKHG18k
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-https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/why-charles-murrays-new-book-is-his
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-Coleman Hughes: it's possible to push back against Kendism without
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5QcD_12fQ
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-printing IQ in the NYT in 1969!!!
-https://www.unz.com/isteve/news-that-used-to-be-fit-to-print/
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-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X9Rk4rXSMnKfYLq5r/a-brief-review-of-current-and-near-future-methods-of-genetic
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-http://web.archive.org/web/20201101001637/https://www.unz.com/isteve/fbi-murder-offender-ratio-for-blacks-nonblacks-ratio-for-males-females/
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-https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-capture-the-full-extent-of-the-systemic-bias-in-policing/
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-https://quillette.com/2021/07/29/charles-murrays-facing-reality-a-review/
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-"Reading Race: AI Recognises Patient's Racial Identity In Medical Images"
-https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10356
-https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-has-the-worst-superpower-medical-racism/
-https://www.wired.com/story/these-algorithms-look-x-rays-detect-your-race/
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-https://www.unz.com/isteve/military-discovers-that-stripping-photos-from-promotion-evaluations-hurts-blacks/
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-"Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification"
-> mean heritable propensity for violence thus shifted 0.08 SD leftward with each passing generation
-> the most violent 1 to 2% should form a right-hand “tail” that begins 2.33–2.05
-SD to the right of the mean propensity for homicide. If we eliminate this right-hand tail and leave only the other 98-99% to survive and reproduce, we have a selection differential of 0.027 to 0.049 SD per generation.
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-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rhg27MqkxJsnZwoYg/the-codex-skeptic-faq
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-https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational
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-https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/tetlock-and-the-taliban
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-Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse
-https://archive.is/aVTpr
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-https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/observations-on-smarter-african-americans/
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-https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354010004_Genetic_Ancestry_and_General_Cognitive_Ability_in_a_Sample_of_American_Youths
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-only 14% approval for IQ enhancement https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/12/10/biotechnology-research-viewed-with-caution-globally-but-most-support-gene-editing-for-babies-to-treat-disease/
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-"Human capital mediates natural selection in contemporary humans"
-https://ueaeco.github.io/working-papers/papers/ueaeco/UEA-ECO-21-02_Updated.pdf
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-[TODO: Scott Alexander on "involuntary": "This sounds super Orwellian, but it really is done with the patient's best interest at heart." https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/22/navigating-and-or-avoiding-the-inpatient-mental-health-system/ ]
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-[TODO: https://archive.is/HUkzY public defender
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-The racist magazine _American Renaissance_ once published [an article by a public defender](https://archive.is/HUkzY) complaining about the behavior of his black clients.
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-The lawyer
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-> If you tell a black man that the evidence is very harmful to his case, he will blame _you_. "You ain't workin' fo' me." "It like you workin' with da State." Every public defender hears this. The more you try to explain the evidence to a black man, the angrier he gets.
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-I feel a lot of sympathy for the defendant
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