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To be fair, I don’t think they can “clean up their community”, given that their preferred area of HBD research can only pretty much only have negative outcomes for society as a whole.
I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply... See more
I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply... See more
TracingWoodgrains • Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
The age of global pseudonymous scientific publication has begun.
This is a well-sourced article making the case for laboratory escape & contrasting to zoonosis. Has explicit epistemology. Avoids obvious tinfoil hat gotchas. Provides links. Worth reading.
https://t.co/kR3tLLC22K https://t.co/NJ4sCRWfP7
Listen to Sam Harris skillfully eviscerate the “both sides” argument in the Israel-Hamas war:
“The boundary between antisemitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern, and I’m not sure it’s always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t… Show more
by deploying alternative news feed algorithms on in-silico social media platforms, where large language model (LLM) agents that mimic human social media users interact with one another, we can explore and test the impact of these alternative algorithms on macro-level social outcomes, such as conflicts and polarization.[385]
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The Economist, a magazine as mainstream and centrist as it gets, reports this week that immigration is only a fiscal benefit to the receiving country if an immigrant at least has a college degree. Lower human capital immigrants, instead of "funding pensions" like politicians promise, actually end up on welfare and are a drag on public... See more
I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.com
1/This study suggests that global use of social media over time leads to global sorting into just two primary camps, or worldviews. If their hypothesis is correct, it has profound implications for the world in the coming years.
h/t @jonathanstray
https://t.co/sPbQufHfSG https://t.co/DgFukvxvh5