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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually that was the lulz of all time, "malware detectors". except they didn't detect stuff half-register shifted did they.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` to begin, is your position that this doesn't work or that this doesn't make sense ?
mircea_popescu: we'd be a new sort of furry : the soulless! better than emo!
mircea_popescu: if i were 20 years younger i'd take the sluts to whatever cons on this premise.
mircea_popescu: "and then everything failed because well... everyone was in a bureaucracy, because the souls were like loist behind"
mircea_popescu: i'd read a technopunk sf novel working on this exact premise.
mircea_popescu: ok. "sort of wankery they abusively call intelligence, cause they're dumb and ambitious" ?
mircea_popescu: plenty of good examples, no argument they move faster.
mircea_popescu: actually i watched mosquitoes bite, and the head movement really resembles a tank tower.
mircea_popescu: if survival depends on, say, spending a week in a fox hole paying the fuck attention, "intelligence", especially the dreamy "creative" sort the us is so enamoured with, is the topmost liability.
mircea_popescu: in some circumstances lack of intelligence is a distinctive fitting advantage.
mircea_popescu: think about women, your head thinks about women much easier/better. general fitness factor : big tits, tall, clear eyes, wide hips, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on my own guesswork it's a present but minor factor.
mircea_popescu: chick falls in love with geek, he takes her home and tells her to fuck any toy in the lab except this one,
mircea_popescu: iirc i said then, i mostly measure intelligence in person by derived units, such as reaction speeds.
mircea_popescu: we don't see that many people carrying skyscrapers around.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but strength, you wiull notice, is VERY capped at the top.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that won't fucking do anything. ANYTHING. you are to be traced to lucy, the stupidest chimp that ever lived.
mircea_popescu: im normally 6"2 but i woke with a headache and im only 4"10
mircea_popescu: but to belabour the point : one of the principal reasons "measuring iq" as it were height is so ridiculous, is because nobody has yet had an off day for height.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: same difference as between being a doctor and practicing medicine.
mircea_popescu: (and yes intelligence is, by and large, a human behaviour. it's not a fucking identity.)
mircea_popescu: and in particular the race -> intelligence one has, in my experience so far, about a thousand times more often worked to illuminate the idiocy of the proponent than say anything about its intended topic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the issue : a plethora of persuasive arguments can be made starting with genetics and ending with behaviours. however, the most commonly encountered ones are neither persuasive
mircea_popescu: yeah, skepticism will never sink, and if it does, brainbox' flooded.
mircea_popescu: but that is an argument to sink a competing theory with,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, re twin studies : they're great because best we got
mircea_popescu: note that my observation about where the gaussian's bound is not idle.
mircea_popescu: what, down sindrome ? that's uncontroversial as it gets.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the genetic explanation of stupidity is certainly not in dispute here.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the differential of quality between the definitions of pregnant and intelligent.
mircea_popescu: decimation quite a ways ahead of any genetic explanations for intelligence on tap
mircea_popescu: once copulation explained pregnancy, that was it , you know ?
mircea_popescu: but wouldn't you agree that had the apples made him gay, THAT would be the most interesting thing about them ?
mircea_popescu: that's the thing : any attempt to explain behaviour by genetics ends up bending the notion of "explain" the fuck out of place
mircea_popescu: some attempts will be made, but srsly... whadda ya want. shit's hard and chemistry has other stuff to do.
mircea_popescu: at any rate : expecting human behaviour to be addressed by genetics is a little like expecting food to be discussed by chemistry.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tho by now that's migrated closer to a personal relationship.
mircea_popescu: the behaviour is not so much different from whatever, altruism. speech. etc.
mircea_popescu: (there's this entire subculture of [mostly white] men that aim to raise other peopel's children)
mircea_popescu: that's why you get sleep paralysis. but it doesn'ty hold.