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diff --git a/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md b/content/drafts/the-causality-of-ethnic-differences-in-covid-19-outcomes-is-an-open-empirical-question.md
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@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ The ongoing pandemic which continues to disrupt—and take—lives across Societ
 
 > There's nothing about being Black, in and of itself, that makes people more biologically susceptible to Covid-19. Instead, the disproportionate impact is due to an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism.
 
 
 > There's nothing about being Black, in and of itself, that makes people more biologically susceptible to Covid-19. Instead, the disproportionate impact is due to an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism.
 

-But how does Samuel _know_ this? I agree that an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism is almost certainly going to be a significant _part_ the explanation for the observed differences. But the claim that "there's _nothing_ about being Black, in and of itself" (emphasis mine) affecting susceptibility to this disease is a _much_ stronger assertion, one that I think has a substantial probability of being false, if it turns out that one of the various minor ways in which humans vary by genetic ancestry happens to be relevant to the progression of this particular disease.
+But how does Samuel _know_ this? I agree that an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism is almost certainly going to be a significant _part_ the explanation for the observed differences. But the claim that "there's _nothing_ about being Black, in and of itself" (emphasis mine) affecting susceptibility to this disease is a _much_ stronger assertion—one that I think has a substantial probability of being false, if it turns out that one of the various minor ways in which humans vary by genetic ancestry happens to be relevant to the progression of this particular disease.

 
 In the case of people of African descent, I think we _do_ have a specific candidate for a biological difference affecting COVID-19 outcomes. A randomized clinical trial found that 
 
 
 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764
 
 In the case of people of African descent, I think we _do_ have a specific candidate for a biological difference affecting COVID-19 outcomes. A randomized clinical trial found that 
 
 
 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764

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+https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16549493/

 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
 
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
 


@@ -26,13 +26,10 @@ Jablonski–Chaplin
 
 (I ordinary would have written _racialism_ here—)
 
 
 (I ordinary would have written _racialism_ here—)
 

-

 It's kind of nuts that we live in a world where I perceive opportunity in writing this post. "It's an open empirical question" is just about _the_ lamest, most _uninformative_ thing you can possibly say about an issue, [followed only by just "It's an empirical question"](http://theboundsofcognition.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-empirical-question-versus-its-open.html). (Some empirical questions are settled!)
 
 It's kind of nuts that we live in a world where I perceive opportunity in writing this post. "It's an open empirical question" is just about _the_ lamest, most _uninformative_ thing you can possibly say about an issue, [followed only by just "It's an empirical question"](http://theboundsofcognition.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-empirical-question-versus-its-open.html). (Some empirical questions are settled!)
 

-

 the U.S. has much fewer mixed-race people than Brazil specifically because of institutionalized racism (the one-drop rule discouraging intermarriage)
 
 the U.S. has much fewer mixed-race people than Brazil specifically because of institutionalized racism (the one-drop rule discouraging intermarriage)
 

-

 https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2020/09/28/white-men-invented-everything/
 
 ![](/images/covid_dag.svg)
 https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2020/09/28/white-men-invented-everything/
 
 ![](/images/covid_dag.svg)

diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
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@@ -353,3 +353,11 @@ https://xkcd.com/1942/
 > He shrugged apologetically. "The question really has no meaning. _Why_ anything? The laws of physics and the boundary conditions of space-time. What more can I say?"
 >
 > —"Eugene" by Greg Egan
 > He shrugged apologetically. "The question really has no meaning. _Why_ anything? The laws of physics and the boundary conditions of space-time. What more can I say?"
 >
 > —"Eugene" by Greg Egan

+
+(post for leaving Berkeley)
+> _I don't care about what all the others say  
+> Well I guess there are some things that will just never go away, I  
+> Wish that I could say that there's no better place than home  
+> But home's a place that I have never known_
+>
+> —"On The Run", _Steven Universe_

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@@ -2074,6 +2074,7 @@ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/j165sq/culture_war_roundup_for_the_we
 https://transfemscience.org/articles/
 
 https://defmacro.substack.com/p/against-xkcd-1357
 https://transfemscience.org/articles/
 
 https://defmacro.substack.com/p/against-xkcd-1357

+https://defmacro.substack.com/p/from-corporate-politics-there-is

 https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/review-of-rod-drehers-live-not-by-lies/
 https://bonald.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/die-hard-a-model-of-the-enemys-motivation/
 
 https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/review-of-rod-drehers-live-not-by-lies/
 https://bonald.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/die-hard-a-model-of-the-enemys-motivation/
 

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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Topical—
+
+_ The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open Empirical Question
+

 Main path (important posts)—
 
 Milestone—
 Main path (important posts)—
 
 Milestone—


@@ -51,6 +55,7 @@ _ reply to https://azdoine.tumblr.com/post/173995599942/a-reply-to-unremediatedg
 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
 _ Cynical Theories review
 _ reply to https://deathisbadblog.com/the-real-transphobes-are-the-ones-we-made-along-the-way/
 _ Beckett Mariner Is Trans https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/in3g92/was_mariner_a_teenager_on_the_enterprised/
 _ Cynical Theories review

+_ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/

 
 
 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards
 
 
 _ Eugenics Is Actually Good, You Worthless Cowards