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Equality is our Great God, so it's no surprise Charles Murray's 1995 book on group IQ differences set off a storm. But 52 brave scientists risked their careers to support it. Who were they? Here's a full list + their most interesting books. Meet The Bell Curve Reading List: 1. Seymour Itzkoff: The Decline of... See more

In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was "unsafe" Code for "problematic but TRUE" Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread:

Gwern may prove to be the most important intellectual of the era. Maybe Yud; not Scott. Just on merit of like three well-written essays that were read by people of long will. Probably: The Scaling Hypothesis Embryo Selection For Intelligence Why Tool AIs Want to Be... See more

We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of

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I simulated 100,000 people to show how often people are "thrice-exceptional": Smart, stable, and exceptionally hard-working. I've highlighted these people in red in this chart: https://t.co/lh0NN3ypDh

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