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 Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), bullet-biting, epistemic horror, game theory, intelligence, ideology, race, politics, stigma, intelligence explosion, genetics
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+> A similar definition of intelligence was expressed by Aquinas as "the ability to combine and separate"—the ability to see the difference between things that seem similar and to see the similarities betweeen things which seem different.
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+> —Arthur R. Jensen, "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?"
+
 Well, this is awkward.
 
 I liked [reviewing the _last_ Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/).
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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
 
 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>>)