X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fhuman-diversity-notes.md;h=f540d84ea2918042824511d8b6264a08e33ba74d;hp=bef387c97d0d528526948aa94b42eab3016da3d0;hb=3b7118e1b186201c20de45c6baffce76edcf2131;hpb=a02b9fc87b5ba3e97917b47900dba2917f3f2099 diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md index bef387c..f540d84 100644 --- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md +++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md @@ -1,21 +1,7 @@ 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", "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 @@ -26,12 +12,6 @@ The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowle 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