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Samuel Taylor Coleridge had an opium addiction too. We should legalize drugs and help people who get addicted, not just ban substances that some people use responsibly.

You're right --- but as John Maynard Keynes famously wrote, "In the long run, we're all dead". In the medium term, it is unreasonable to expect middle America to compete with worke…

> I'm not sure what number of undocumented Syrian refugees I would trade for every American citizen who believes that immigration is "dysgenic", but I think it's probably a high nu…

The biggest issue with illegal immigration is that it is intensely dysgenic. A legal immigration program can select people of some distinction. An uncontrolled illegal flood has th…

I'm an American citizen and a very senior software engineer. I'm also a white male. Immigration restrictions will raise my wages. These measures also infuriate those who regularly …

https://www.quora.com/Psychology-Do-men-have-a-wider-varianc...

IQ is not boosted much by intensive education, especially in adults. Intensive education can raise IQs during childhood, but by the time these children mature into adults, their IQ…

IQ correlates very well with all sorts of things, including career choice (e.g. physicists have very high IQs) and lifetime earning. By any objective measure, IQ is at the very lea…

More likely, I think, is that it contradicts the feminist narrative that every gender disparity that disadvantages women is the fault of the patriarchy and every gender disparity t…

This belief is accurate. Men and women have similar IQ means, but men have greater variance. This difference implies that there are more low-IQ men than there are low-IQ women, and…

> It's increasingly difficult to opt out of browser autofill Good. I hope browsers autodetect these web font tricks and pop up similar warnings. I can't stand when some random webs…

I'm glad I'm not the only developer who can't stand the kind of PM you describe.

Microsoft has a lot of deadweight, mostly holdovers from the Ballmer era.

The crimethink goes deeper than that. IQ indeed differs by heritage. Why shouldn't other personality traits? What if one group has personality traits that on average lead to greate…

> relatively small and unstable difference in average test performance between populations I'm glad that you at least acknowledge that group differences exist. I think you'd be sur…

> But the relation of those groups with what we call "race" is almost zero. The everyday races correspond to real, observable genetic clusters. There are real characteristics share…

Why would it be surprising that the child of someone who is white and someone who is half white might go on to appear mostly white? You yourself mention that your genetic makeup (p…

When you take a big corpus of genomes and split them using impartial mathematics into similarity-clusters, you get clusters that almost perfectly match the continent-scale races th…

> Could you list what races you think exist, and some kind of paper that establishes a scientific method for where the dividing lines in the genetic gradients are drawn and why suc…

There are strong reasons to believe that the observed genetic differences between races have profound phenotype effects. After all, the races are different, physically. It's not "j…

> scientists getting behind the idea that there are clear racial lines dividing us all will not contribute to the peace-making. I disagree. Science promulgating obvious falsehoods …

> 85% of genetic variation exists within local populations That's Lewontin's Fallacy [1]. There's no logical reason to think that genome-wide diversity within populations somehow p…

Race absolutely correlates with genetic clusters. Look at this map, [1], and say that there's no correlation between genetic markers and continental origin. Forensic anthropologist…