* 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!
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—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.)
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
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