X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-facing-reality.md;h=4640f80dea1d7da757f89ea52bbaed4fd19faf7e;hp=0dc744942383d62d746d00409a7f1907d92c8947;hb=1ea193ce9050516559d59095591e2d8caf97564e;hpb=cc617850a1ee9016dc148688413b3ebae2fb7f60 diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index 0dc7449..4640f80 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Category: commentary Tags: Charles Murray, review (book), bullet-biting, epistemic horror, game theory, intelligence, ideology, race, politics, stigma, intelligence explosion, genetics Status: draft +> 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. +> +> —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/). @@ -48,3 +52,13 @@ I read everything I could about the James Watson affair in 2007 The debate never advances; Arthur Jensen on the Phil Donahue show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtoqK1gsmHI + +"Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good?" (No!) +https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2021-brown.pdf + +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 + +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 <> I'm special or the Difference is trivial. <> (But I've _always_ been <>)