X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fhuman-diversity-notes.md;h=a3b1165b7f7d776fc595d563c98f2f409a5b4465;hp=bef387c97d0d528526948aa94b42eab3016da3d0;hb=4db856d3dfff1d7b93141f5bb20082f4a79623b0;hpb=a02b9fc87b5ba3e97917b47900dba2917f3f2099 diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md index bef387c..a3b1165 100644 --- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md +++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md @@ -1,37 +1,19 @@ TODO— - 1. need to clearly define before casually using later: "cognitive repetioires", "egalitarian", "renormalized", "human _bio_-diversity" + 1. need to clearly define before casually using later: "egalitarian", "hereditarian", "renormalized", "human _bio_-diversity" -_cognitive repetioires_—the phrase being Murray's device for shaving nine syllables off "personality, abilities, and social behavior" - ---- - -3. Loury— - -https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GSz8SrKFfW7fJK2wN/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling - -As economist Glenn C. 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. - - 9. mention "Coming Apart" thesis - - 14. individual-level differences are less threatening because people don't perceive them as forming a coalition (Murray disagrees with this!) - ----- 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 +https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/twitter-piles-on-richard-dawkins-over-eugenics-tweet/13333 +Murray "Yes": https://archive.is/uaFFF + 5. stages of HBD -The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowledge human biodiversity](http://www.xenosystems.net/five-stages-of-hbd/) (in analogy to the famous, albeit [reportedly lacking in empirical support](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model), five-stage Kübler-Ross model of grief), culminating in Stage 4: Depression ("Who could possibly have imagined that reality was so evil?") and 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 ..."). 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 -------- - - 7. more examples of sex difference effect sizes, elaborate on "big" doesn't mean anything - - 8. tie into farmer/forager - ---- 10. Jensen sources of variation @@ -44,22 +26,9 @@ The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowle * 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - -(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.) @@ -211,11 +180,9 @@ Anacholic's critique: https://twitter.com/AnechoicMedia_/status/1245997689113907 This was the linkpost description text I initially drafted, before deciding that the "Straussian coyness" I [occasionally]() [succumb]() to is ultimately unbecoming. -A Book Review - -(_Content warning_: [politics](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-is-the-mind-killer). Read with caution, as always.) +## A Book Review -Someone wrote a blog post reviewing a book by some sociologist named Murray. Never heard of him. Anyway, I couldn't get through the whole thing because the reviewer has this _really obnoxious_ writing style that uses way too many italics and exclamation points (as well as occasional weirdly out-of-place cuss words?!), but I did notice that he (?) links to _Less Wrong_ a few times, which is something I don't see "in the wild" very often these days, so I "thought it couldn't hurt" to share the link here in case one of you happens to find it interesting?? +Someone wrote a blog post reviewing a book by some sociologist named Murray. Never heard of him. Anyway, I couldn't get through the whole thing because the reviewer has this _really obnoxious_ writing style that uses way too many italics and exclamation points (as well as occasional weirdly out-of-place cuss words?!), but I did notice that he (?) links to _Less Wrong_ a few times, which is something I don't see "in the wild" very often these days, so I "thought it couldn't hurt" to share the link here in case one of you happens to find it interesting?? (April 2020, ~11,200 words) ------