From 1a2ddb43083f94d876752067a4cbd37a5b163bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:39:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Human Diversity review: itemize finishing push Here's a list of 13 more things I want to hit with this post. If I diligently tackle them one by one, I might be able to get a draft out to my prereaders tonight?! --- notes/human-diversity-notes.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md index 2ef738c..c0957ba 100644 --- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md +++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md @@ -1,23 +1,36 @@ TODOâ - * need to clearly define before casually using later: "cognitive repetioires", "egalitarian", "renormalized" - * "genders have been identified" + 1. need to clearly define before casually using later: "cognitive repetioires", "egalitarian", "renormalized" + + 2. "genders have been identified" "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 I think this would fail to pass the [Ideological Turing Test](https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html). The language of _has been identified_ - +3. Louryâ As economist Glenn Loury points out in _The Anatomy of Racial Inequality_, cognitive abilities decline with age, and yet we don't see a moral panic about the consequences of an aging workforce, because older people are construed as an "us"âour mothers and fathersârather than an outgroup. + 4. * Embryo selection looks _really important_; I don't want to give amunition to racists, but I need to talk about thatâand 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 + + 5. stages of HBD + + 6. I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point)âand finish + + 7. more examples of sex difference effect sizes, elaborate on "big" doesn't mean anything + + 8. tie into farmer/forager + + 9. mention "Coming Apart" thesis - * Embryo selection looks _really important_; I don't want to give amunition to racists, but I need to talk about thatâand 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 + 10. Jensen sources of variation + 11. colorism -* stages of HBD + 12. explain imagine self in inferior group - * I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point) + 13. work in individual-level stereotypes ------ -- 2.17.1