Part 1 and part 2 Excellent post at the Slate Star Codex Reddit sub: Since HBD, intelligence, and heritability are such hot issues these days, I think it is worth analyzing why people are so fixated on IQ and heritability. The reason is actually incredibly obvious so I’ll just go ahead and say it, because… Continue reading IQ: More Than a Number, Part 3
Gnon’s Wager
‘Gnon insurance’ is a way to profit from the inevitability of techno-commercialism as one of the major constituents of the so-called ‘new world order’. This entails holding shares of companies that are most likely to accede to power under such a system, namely Google, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook, which are the most promising candidates… Continue reading Gnon’s Wager
Global ‘Power Vacuum’ Will be Filled by America and China
From Richard Fernandez Not a King, but the King of Beggars: The narrative that Russia — a country with an economy smaller than Italy — smaller than New York State’s — will take over the world is less compelling than than the alternative thesis: that the tide of chaos is rising across the planet. With… Continue reading Global ‘Power Vacuum’ Will be Filled by America and China
Defining and Understanding Rationalism
Rationalism can have two definitions: first, a community that call themselves Rationalists, that read ‘high-IQ sites’ such as Marginal Revolution, Less Wrong, and Slate Star Codex, and according to various surveys, identify as liberal, are atheist or agnostic, and, in general, hold a ‘realist’ philosophical worldview. Second, an epistemological approach–to try to see the hidden… Continue reading Defining and Understanding Rationalism
SJWs, Jordan Peterson, and Democracy
Jordan Peterson is right about IQ, gender pronouns, and SJWs…but wrong in other regards, and like his enlightenment brethren, clings to democracy and misdiagnoses problem. The only societies that are not slave societies are western enlightenment democracies. From my C2C interview: https://t.co/jdcmwbl5Cl pic.twitter.com/JcWNYn1LSm — Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 4, 2016 He’s right: SJWs and… Continue reading SJWs, Jordan Peterson, and Democracy
Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Another ‘NRx summary’ article: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction As par for the course, there are mentions of Less Wrong and Eliezer Yudkowsky, who are somehow lumped with NXx for reasons that elude me. Especially as of 2015, the rationalist community is only tenuously, at best, linked with… Continue reading Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Implementation of HBD-based Policy
From Gwern on a Hacker News comment thread: I always regarded myself as being a left libertarian sort of type. My reaction to learning about individual differences being so profoundly driven by genetics – never mind racial differences – was simple: research and subsidize genetic engineering. For everyone. To the point of being free. Level… Continue reading Implementation of HBD-based Policy
Tyler Cowen the Neoreactionary?
This article is getting a lot of attention: Tyler Cowen’s Unexpected Neoreactionary Manifesto Tyler’s new book The Complacent Class has themes of NRx, but this is because of ‘shared narratives’ and less to do with Tyler himself being a reactionary. Given that I’ve written about this for months, and that NRx has a sort of… Continue reading Tyler Cowen the Neoreactionary?
YouTube Censorship
This story is going viral: The three reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber Allow me to extrapolate on a meme those kids today are using: “Dude, you had one job. And it looked like a really easy one.” Let’s Players, streamers or content creators, whatever you like, get to play video games and make… Continue reading YouTube Censorship
Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends
Interesting article: Everything Wrong with College And that’s how you end up with doctors being forced to endure 14 years of schooling. Hard to open a little family practice and provide cheap care when you’re 160 thousand dollars in debt. It’s become pretty fashionable these days , both for the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ to… Continue reading Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends