X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-facing-reality.md;h=98643e8a7e7dcbc27dd898eb5fcc57bf950552ec;hp=d97c566ff328e9e77d89f3c8da6166e9d803743b;hb=8383bb88a415412c449dbf491f6ceaf2e684be63;hpb=c3b1eee86884c24df3893b33b155230d5783b220 diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md index d97c566..98643e8 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md @@ -4,9 +4,13 @@ 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](http://unremediatedgender.space/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/). +I liked [reviewing the _last_ Charles Murray book](/2020/Apr/book-review-human-diversity/). You've got to feel sorry for Charles Murray. @@ -33,3 +37,37 @@ https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2019/01/what-you-cant-say-genetic-group-difference- [the Georgetown law professor thing: "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks."—this is actually a very straightforward consequence of affirmative action (even if you don't believe in a genetic gap); it should be possible to reason about https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/12/georgetown-terminates-law-professor-reprehensible-comments-about-black-students ] + + +Paul Christiano abstract story about what kind of agents steer the future +https://rationalaltruist.com/2013/02/27/why-will-they-be-happy/ + +https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-america-is-flunking-math-education + +https://www.unz.com/isteve/nature-tackling-systemic-racism-requires-the-system-of-science-to-change/ + +https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-not-so-great-reset-rolls-on/ + +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 <>) + +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder + +https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights + +"No causal associations between childhood family income and subsequent psychiatric disorders, substance misuse and violent crime arrests" +https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyab099/6288123 + +https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak