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@@ -122,4 +122,4 @@ Some people think that folk concepts of "intelligence" or being "smart" are ill-
 
 So Murray and Herrnstein talk about this "intelligence" thingy, and how it's heritable, and how it predicts income, school success, not being a criminal, _&c._, and how this has all sorts of implications for Society and inequality and class structure and stuff.
 
-This _should_ just be more social-science nerd stuff, the sort of thing that would only draw your attention if, like me, you feel bad about not being smart enough to do algebraic topology and want to console yourself by at least knowing about the Science of not being smart enough to do algebraic topology. The reason everyone _and her dog_ is still mad at Charles Murray a quarter century later is Chapter 13, "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability", and Chapter 14, "Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ". So, _apparently_, different "racial" groups have different average scores on IQ tests. [Ashkenazi Jews do the best](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/). (I sometimes privately joke that the fact that I'm [only 85% Ashkenazi (according to 23andMe)](/images/ancestry_report.png) explains my low IQ.) East Asians do a little better than Europeans/"whites". And—this is the part no one is happy about—the difference between U.S. whites and U.S. blacks is about Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1. (If two groups differ by _d_ = 1 on some measurement that's normally distributed within each group, that means that the mean of the group with the lower average measurement is at the 16th percentile of the group with the higher average measurement, or that a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the higher average measurement has a probability of 0.76 have having a higher measurement than a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the lower average measurement.)
+This _should_ just be more social-science nerd stuff, the sort of thing that would only draw your attention if, like me, you feel bad about not being smart enough to do algebraic topology and want to console yourself by at least knowing about the Science of not being smart enough to do algebraic topology. The reason everyone _and her dog_ is still mad at Charles Murray a quarter century later is Chapter 13, "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability", and Chapter 14, "Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ". So, _apparently_, different ethnic/"racial" groups have different average scores on IQ tests. [Ashkenazi Jews do the best](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/). (I sometimes privately joke that the fact that I'm [only 85% Ashkenazi (according to 23andMe)](/images/ancestry_report.png) explains my low IQ.) East Asians do a little better than Europeans/"whites". And—this is the part no one is happy about—the difference between U.S. whites and U.S. blacks is about Cohen's _d_ ≈ 1. (If two groups differ by _d_ = 1 on some measurement that's normally distributed within each group, that means that the mean of the group with the lower average measurement is at the 16th percentile of the group with the higher average measurement, or that a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the higher average measurement has a probability of 0.76 have having a higher measurement than a uniformly-randomly selected member of the group with the lower average measurement.)

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@@ -1558,6 +1558,8 @@ then, everyone will understand
 
 14 March: "I'm a pterodactyl dragon."
 
+17 March: "I was a hospital before but then I went through a metamorphosis...now I'm a crocodile."
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 smart fascism—
@@ -1690,3 +1692,12 @@ it turns out to be surprisingly useful to model the world as being made out of t
 https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1239013977146953728
 
 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/201611/boys-dressed-girls-who-became-serial-killers
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+https://medium.com/@catamphetamine/how-github-blocked-me-and-all-my-libraries-c32c61f061d3
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/fk5nxt/pregnant_people/fkqzthd/
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+church-state https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1212034852041699331
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+kind of obsessive https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/fight-to-make-crosswords-more-inclusive/608212/
+https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/nyt-crossword-puzzle-ethnic-slur.html

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@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ I would be less likely to listen to Bad Men saying factually correct things, if
 
 Then offer her a job at the salary of an 8x engineer. (Get it? It's an efficient markets joke: if companies really behaved like this, they would compete to equilibrium & there would be no pay gap in the 1st place. But real-world markets aren't efficient for many reasons 😰)
 
+> that which they cannot appropriate is biologically determined
+https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1129538855554539520
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 You know who else believed that "biological sex" was a useful concept? Hitler!
 
 Only losing coalitions have an incentive to support free-speech norms. You don't want to be a LOSER, do you??