-_The authorities are usually trying to get it right._ I mean, yes—_by the Authority's own corrupt standards_.
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-[by the authority's own corrupt standards!! TODO: ...
-http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-crimes-be-discussed-literally/
-https://archive.is/HUkzY public defender
-finish section]
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-[TODO: summarize chapter on first-order effects of IQ]
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-[TODO: summarize chapter on first-order effects of crime]
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-Murray wraps up with a chapter on "If We Don't Face Reality." The facts of IQ and crime differences don't imply any particular policy, but Murray wants researchers to at least be able to control IQ as an independent variable, and for the targets of our ongoing Cultural Revolution to offer a little more resistance. Moreover, Murray contends, identity politics is an existential threat to the American system: it was one thing when just minorities thought of themselves as collective interest groups, but if the white working class picks up the same playbook, then the ideal of individualism will be truly lost within the tides of ethnic conflict. Murray identifies eliminating government-sponsored affirmative action as politically impossible, "not within our grasp", but that a partial solution would be for those on the center-left and center-right to reaffirm the American creed and the goal of equality before the law.
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-To me, this seems ... pretty naïve? I _also_ feel a lot of affection and loyalty to the previous ideological regime, but what made equality before the law such an effective marketing promise was the unstated premise that it would lead to, you know, _actual_ equality. If that's _empirically not true_, and people _aren't_ actually colorblind—if people notice ethnicity as a cluster in high-dimensional configuration space and tend to care more about people "like us"—then the classic ideal of individualist egalitarianism
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-That bell can't be unrung.
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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_.
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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/