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> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. There's a reason for th…

I just remembered this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVR27dKuQY , a chimpanzee smoking a cig somewhere in China.

I like the following anecdote of Darwin's (though it's from quite a bit later in time): Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and spiritous liquors: they will …

The sentiment is lifted directly from the linked post. It's hard to argue with given the subcontinent had agricultural, seafaring populations while Australian populations never mad…

here's some interesting speculation on this topic: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-three-hour-tour/ Basically there's genetic (Y chromosome) and linguistic evidence sug…

If you're a remotely rational government, why would you not subsidize it? The dividends you could reap from a population with greater health, intelligence, self-control, low time-p…

> 90% of genetic variance in human races exists in the African continent Counting neutral variation (the vast majority of genetic variation). You can get plenty of variation in non…

*related since this doesn't seem familiar to people, a little more detail: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/16/did-falling-testosteron... https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-loo…

relsted to the secular decline in testosterone (whatever's causing that)?

I've heard that there was a sharp increase from the early 20th century to the 70s-80s, then a small decline since then (maybe due to deleading gasoline among other things), and it …

Alternate perspective: "Rethinking the Transmission Gap: What Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology Mean for Attachment Theory", https://www.researchgate.net/publication/…

Has Thiel described himself as "libertarian" recently? Even if he has, I'm not sure he means it in the same sense as the general population. I like Samuel Hammond's analysis. His s…

There was an interesting study looking at measures of honesty and economic growth: https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/3154295/7054672/Honesty+pape... . Chinese nationals were in the t…

No self-experiments but he has posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/537w8h/phys... , a twin study showing decreased body fat and increased grey matter in re…

Yeah I was skimming replies and didn't notice the thrust of your comment. But I stand by my statement about that particular conversation. Based off what I've seen, if Twitter goes …

G+ was good (a lot of academics were using it heavily for a while and I think John Baez, for example, still is), but it never accumulated much of a userbase (the reason I don't spe…

Facebook is a walled garden w/ no anonymity. Privacy (specifically, most posts are only seen by friends of poster) can be good but it can also stifle discussion. Google Plus might …

Here's one discussion that I don't think could have taken place on another social network: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/771434850863583233 . There a lot of people I follow…

There's preliminary evidence for weak but steady selection against cognitive ability and/or educational attainment over the past century. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/0…

I'd recommend it. I was grandfathered into the free plan but $11/year seems fair. Regardless of what you settle on I'd look for the equivalent of http://www.packal.org/workflow/alf…

I've started keeping such a list actually: [redacted]

I like the scenarios described in https://carcinisation.com/2015/07/23/defensive-epistemology/ . One of them is using the efficient market hypothesis (true enough for this applicat…

Yes, they still haven't replied to a question about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4p5xgx/ai_hedge_fu... Based off that article they don't seem to understand the h…

The point he's making is that Facebook can't be trusted to self-regulate (in the context of privacy). With that assumption you probably wouldn't accept their opaque self-investigat…