X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fhuman-diversity-notes.md;h=69de45c07c81dea0c318a8a7a14e38435033f835;hp=2ef738cda355d334cae99f049d7a9ede61f85dd0;hb=e9350833b6d0196c622806a41756809f4fa28438;hpb=5ea420a4c756cb1c8100228119a9885a71c3492b diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md index 2ef738c..69de45c 100644 --- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md +++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md @@ -1,24 +1,24 @@ TODO— - * need to clearly define before casually using later: "cognitive repetioires", "egalitarian", "renormalized" - * "genders have been identified" + 1. need to clearly define before casually using later: "egalitarian", "hereditarian", "renormalized", "human _bio_-diversity" + +----- -"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 I think this would fail to pass the [Ideological Turing Test](https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html). + 4. * Embryo selection looks _really important_—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 -The language of _has been identified_ +https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/twitter-piles-on-richard-dawkins-over-eugenics-tweet/13333 +Murray "Yes": https://archive.is/uaFFF + 5. stages of HBD -As economist Glenn Loury points out in _The Anatomy of Racial Inequality_, cognitive abilities decline with age, and yet we don't see a moral panic about the consequences of an aging workforce, because older people are construed as an "us"—our mothers and fathers—rather than an outgroup. + 6. I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point)—and finish +---- - * 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 - - -* stages of HBD - - * I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point) + 10. Jensen sources of variation + 11. colorism ------ @@ -26,27 +26,9 @@ As economist Glenn Loury points out in _The Anatomy of Racial Inequality_, cogni * it's actually a _selective_ blank slate (Winegard: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/ ) * women and courage * Hyde/Fine binary notes: p. 398 -* need to talk about individual differences being non-threatening - - - - - - - - - - -http://www.xenosystems.net/five-stages-of-hbd/ - -> Stage-4 (Depression): "Who could possibly have imagined that reality was so evil?" - -> Stage-5 (Acceptance): "Blank slate liberalism really has been a mountain of dishonest garbage, hasn’t it? Guess it’s time for it to die ..." - - -(Okay, I was brainwashed by progressivism pretty hard, but ideologies need to appeal to something in human nature; you can't brainwash a human with random bits; they need to be specific bits with something good in them.) +(Okay, I was brainwashed by progressivism pretty hard, but ideologies need to appeal to something in human nature; ) —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.)