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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.
mircea_popescu: no one would dispute the true lenin is in the transhumanist facility at dark pink plaza right ?
mircea_popescu: you become more like your "true self", which just happens to be dead.
mircea_popescu: "rationalists" indistinguishable from flatearthists, except, perhaps, by the color of their guts ? sign me up.
mircea_popescu: "so then what is this nobility again ?" "oh, their blood was a differentcolor." "ic."
mircea_popescu: the same sort of thing as "well... french nobles had lice. just like the peasants. and died of tb"
mircea_popescu: to me the lulz comes from the similarity with idiocy, in spite of all the pretense.
mircea_popescu: that's the animism here, the naive proposition that harm upon the wax statuette will visit the subject.
mircea_popescu: but that aside : you will note that if i make a bitwise copy of a running system on anothjer system, eiteher will continue independently. if i then set the second on fire, the first is unharmed. whether the 2nd "Thinks" that "it" = "the first" is harmed oir not is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: jurov you ever considered doing stand-up comedy ? something in the stewart vein mebbe ?
mircea_popescu: the us equivalent, of course, being mammie to rhett butler : "theis ain't a man's job, buzz off."
mircea_popescu: thur posing at Guinevere becomes Don Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea. You must admit that here Nature beats Comedy out of the field: the wildest hominist or feminist farce is insipid after the most commonplace “slice of life.”
mircea_popescu: ut of the house to outface his ignominy by drunken rejoicings. But when the crisis is over he takes his revenge, swaggering as the breadwinner, and speaking of Woman’s “sphere” with condescension, even with chivalry, as if the kitchen and the nursery were less important than the office in the city. When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the Tennysonian King Ar
mircea_popescu: There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this matter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexual immunities are made acutely humiliating to him. When the terrible moment of birth arrives, its supreme importance and its superhuman effort and peril, in which the father has no part, dwarf him into the meanest insignificance: he slinks out of the way of the humblest petticoat, happy if he be poor enough to be pushed o
mircea_popescu: which doth mean that even across religious conflict, the pregnant woman trumps the imam. imagine that!
mircea_popescu: (put the husbands in the most visibly awkward position too - once that hand to chest gesture's done they can't refuse, but on the other hand... their wife's sexuality was just referenced by these half-satan pigdogs. was pretty lulzy to observe)
mircea_popescu: but, in turkey, at the height of the syrian refugee crisis, i numerously observed various people selling food gifting items to pregnant syrian women.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the revolutionary french actually put it in the code that pregnant women may steal food off market displays.
mircea_popescu: it's just, children are a cost everyone seems to wish to externalize.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY the same thing, except state doesn't pay for mother's year off, pays for gramma's years off.
mircea_popescu: decimation generally ro families reproduce once grandparents go to pension.
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything that can be done in a whole decade of "education" that's as valuable as kid having mother at home first year.
mircea_popescu: decimation imo the most defensible expense in the state budget.
mircea_popescu: people go nuts. as if babies are required to come from the stork, and for free, because htey're wrapped up too tightly to consider fucking.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, giving a mother a year off at childbirth is perfectly reasonable.
mircea_popescu: decimation other than the genetics of intelligence, the children is another way i get conservatives enraged.
mircea_popescu: what's different is a bunch of ideological spew clouding the issues.
mircea_popescu: in your classical "ancient tribe in the caves" about 2/3 of the tribe did something.
mircea_popescu: i'da made the comment there, but apparently greenspun doesn't know how to comments.
mircea_popescu: work is when you do something useful. you're a fricitoner not a fucking worker.
mircea_popescu: you, if your paycheck comes from the governent, YOU ARE NOT A WORKER.
mircea_popescu: people object to slave hard drives being called slave hard drives, in spite of the accuracy
mircea_popescu: "And those workers are different from the ones who decide whether or not to give out a free"