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  * structural oppression and actual differences can both exist at the same time! They're not contradicting each other!
  * I don't know how to build a better world, but my first step is to go a little meta and talk about why we can't talk, and take seriously the possible harms from talking, rather than just asserting that free speech and civil discourse is Actually Good the way the likes of Cofnas/Winegard/Murray do (being a nobody blogger probably helps; I have an excuse)
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  * women and courage
  * A few things are actually _worse_ than the ball-hiders make it seem ("treat ppl as individuals" doesn't work; "IQ isn't morally valuable" doesn't work)
  * 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"
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 * need to talk about individual differences being non-threatening
 
 
+"I realize I am writing in an LGBT era when some argue that 63 distinct genders have been identified," Murray writes. 
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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.)
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 is dedicated to casting aspersions on _The Bell Curve_. 
 
 
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 effect size: standardized units may be practically useless (if of 1 yr of education reliably led to $1 of income)
 
 ["Being Steven Pinker is a lot more fun than being Charles Murray"](https://archive.is/bNo2q)—and Pinker knows it.
 
 Similarly, being Charles Murray is a lot more fun than being J. Philippe Rushton—and Murray knows it.
 
-Hyde/Fine binary notes: p. 388
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 http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/the-typical-set/
 
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wyyfFfaRar2jEdeQK/entangled-truths-contagious-lies
-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTWkjCJScy2GFAgDt/dark-side-epistemology
 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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 > For example, in the United States only about 9 percent of physicians and dentists are women, whereas in the Soviet Union the figure is close to 50 percent.
 
 
+Thermometer and statistical discrimination in machine learning
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 This was the linkpost description text I initially drafted, before deciding that the "Straussian coyness" I [occasionally]() [succumb]() to is ultimately unbecoming.