X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fhuman-diversity-notes.md;h=1eb1d9c81257f17fbde8b429d2416f406ddf112f;hb=6b99b6b966043155f71ed3b79a381de9c2923e4e;hp=101e04c19fc6b74dc4cdb7e802df2b03017b7db5;hpb=16d7e76718bfa121663004a00de8efa25b31a0b5;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md index 101e04c..1eb1d9c 100644 --- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md +++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md @@ -3,21 +3,23 @@ * women and courage * Embryo selection looks _really important_; I don't want to give amunition to racists, but I need to talk about that—and the recent Dawkins brouhaha says we can't even talk about that; and the ways I'm worried about eugenics being misused aren't even on the radar -* Murray says polygenic scores are like GDP ... I bet Ben and Michael would have something to say about that analogy! * "genders have been identified" * Hyde/Fine binary notes: p. 388 * need to talk about individual differences being non-threatening -* need to define "cognitive repetioires" earlier because I mention it later -* work what I mean by "renormalize" earlier because I use it later -* it's actually a _selective_ blank slate (Winegard) +* need to clearly define before casually using later: "cognitive repetioires", "egalitarian", "renormalized" +* it's actually a _selective_ blank slate (Winegard: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/ ) * work in "Can Race Be Erased" result * Glenn Loury on stigma (older people are also dumber, but that's not a political firebomb) -* Usain Bolt and the general factor of athleticism: https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7703577 https://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/09/g-factor-of-sports.html (I ran a 2:08.3 when I was sixteen years old.) +* Usain Bolt and the general factor of athleticism: https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7703577 https://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/09/g-factor-of-sports.html (I ran a 2:08.3 when I was sixteen years old.); the tails come apart ; https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/how-fast-would-usain-bolt-run-the-mile +* blank slate coordination hurt me personally; but just tell the damn truth is also a Schelling point ("Speaking Truth to Power is ...") "I realize I am writing in an LGBT era when some argue that 63 distinct genders have been identified," Murray writes at the beginning of Appendix 2. But this is failing to pass the [Ideological Turing Test](https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html). The language of _has been identified_ +* Murray says polygenic scores are like GDP ... I bet Ben and Michael would have something to say about that analogy! + + —and the people who claim not to have an agenda are lying. (The most I can credibly claim for myself is that I try to keep my agenda reasonably _minimalist_—and the reader must judge for herself to what extent I succeed.) @@ -105,8 +107,6 @@ afraid of seeming too flippant to readers who haven't decoverted yet; my own dec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wyyfFfaRar2jEdeQK/entangled-truths-contagious-lies https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/rescue_utility -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Aud7CL7uhz55KL8jG/transhumanism-as-simplified-humanism -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/faHbrHuPziFH7Ef7p/why-are-individual-iq-differences-ok [claim to be non-disprovable](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fAuWLS7RKWD2npBFR/religion-s-claim-to-be-non-disprovable)