div/acc. Knowledge theorist. Cyanobacterium fan. Advocate for suffering. Physicalist priest. Difference is God and I am a zealot. Links in extended bio.
“We settled this debate generations ago” nope.
“The concept of race has no biological basis” nope, continuum fallacy.
Nothing makes me more certain hereditarianism is correct than the shocking weakness of the arguments against it. Sasha is probably the smartest
@VivekGRamaswamy
Severus was half-Italian, half-Semitic. He was not black in any sense. In fact, he once requested that a black soldier be removed from his presence because he considered his dark skin a dark omen. Don’t change history to suit a narrative. That’s what leftists do.
@marysunshine_7
Yes, people should pull their own weight. How is that controversial? You’re essentially saying other people owe you the labor necessary to sustain you, for free, forever. No thanks.
I love how Musk’s chief antagonists always tacitly reveal the belief that he’s great at his job and makes amazing products. Like those lawyers who wanted to be paid in Tesla stock.
@Cooperstreaming
I’ve walked past countless women in secluded areas of parks. None of them ran screaming like they absolutely would if they saw a bear. None preemptively committed suicide. Usually it’s a polite nod and a smile. You are a narcissistic liar.
We spend more on average per black student than per white student. Our white students perform better than the Nordic countries. Our Asian students perform better than those in most East Asian countries. We do not have a spending problem.
No one who actually has looked into or cares about education or policing, actually thinks the US spends enough money on education. Especially in comparison to policing
Abstractly just saying a high number, avoiding specifics or context, is a very lazy approach to dunk on someone
No he’s not an asshole, he’s absolutely correct. Are you kidding? What a stupid virtue signal. This kid will never ever be a doctor, and shouldn’t be. He’s 3 standard deviations too low. What is wrong with you?
This is the actual midwit meme btw. “Midwit” never meant average. It means “just smart enough to stop trusting your instincts, but not smart enough to actually do better than instinct”.
I love how “multiple intelligences” was made up by weak, agreeable education majors so they wouldn’t have to tell kids they’re dumb, and now most of the population believes humans are RPG characters with the same total number of stat points, just arranged differently.
It’s so painful to not have the trait of dishonesty. On December 31st, 2022, I took a heavy dose of mushrooms and synthesized all my knowledge. I saw humanity walking off a cliff because every one cared more about being nice than telling the truth. I tried to fix it but I’ve
This is a very tangible and disastrous cost of blank slatism. Parents think all that spending, all those extracurriculars and tutors, will make their kids smarter. It won’t. If you want talented kids, choose a good partner. That’s basically it. Don’t stress about parenting.
He’s right, people will not simply mass-detrans or stop wanting medical modifications. In my view, the best path forward is honesty: in MtF, transition is largely driven by a paraphilic desire. This is not generated by porn or any other modern cultural issue, it’s just the way
One truth anti-trans conservatives must reckon with: trans people aren't going to disappear.
This post from a friend in response to Trump's endorsement of anti-trans pastor Mark Burns reminded me of that.
Set aside any questions about who is really a man, who is really a
Hitler is unique among historical figures in the extremity of our collective demonization of him. I’m not denying that he caused millions of deaths, but Mao caused far more. Yet Hitler is not merely seen as a bad leader. He’s a cartoon demon. The avatar of evil itself. Why?
My mom is a lifelong progressive who is now planning to vote for Trump, pitches race realism to her boomer friends, and bought me these earrings for my birthday. Never let anyone tell you that you can’t change minds with reason.
You should have to kill something to be allowed to vote. Something small, like a chicken. If you can’t do that, you’re too weak to be able to think clearly about policy.
@BriannaWu
The requirements:
> Abolish the Civil Rights Act. Get the government completely out of the business of race.
> End welfare programs that have the net effect of transferring money from some races to others.
> Bukele-style law enforcement.
Leftists parasitize us. It will stop.
@9mm_smg
One of his wives didn’t like the drinking, smoking, and carousing, and bullied him into banning them. As vengeance, he also banned coffee and tea, which she liked.
Radfems are so funny.
Men: “you depend on us for protection, reproduction, and hard physical labor”
RF: “we’ll solve that with automation and biotech, worthless moid!”
Men: “we control almost all investment capital and are the majority of researchers/engineers”
RF: “that’s
I'm doing video now!
Episode 1: Self-Reference.
In my inaugural talk, I introduce the concept of self-reference in formal systems and show how it is the underlying syntax of computation, mind, and life. Enjoy!
Beyond the statistics, I don’t get how people’s life experience doesn’t make them suspect that intelligence is basically innate. Have you ever known someone who was really stupid and later became smart? Not education, I mean their basic competence. Fluency of speech, etc.
I think I’ll be leaving this platform soon. I’m falling apart. I have nothing left. I’m tired. I want to be left alone. Goodbye. You have meant a lot to me, but I don’t have the energy to maintain my relationship with myself, let alone with all of you. Best of luck, friends.
I have never had this experience, and I think it’s an egalitarian delusion (or masochism). I have consistently found that the dumber someone is, the more lazy, selfish, violent, and thoughtless they are. There is no law of nature that says everyone has the same total virtue.
If you spend any significant amount of your life around people with lower IQs than yours, you can't help but notice how many of them are better people than you in qualities that you value, including the virtues. This is not idealism. It is the empirical reality of life outside
This is as stupid as the per capita truthers. The entire discipline of statistics exists to quantify relationships. Your visual intuitions are not superior to quantitative methods.
Rihanna outrages Christian’s with provocative and blasphemous shoot dressed as a ‘Sexy Nun.’
The singer clutches her breast while posing in a Nun’s headdress for Interview Magazine.
Feeling depressed, haven’t felt this way in a while. This was my resting state for years. Feels like everything is falling apart. I don’t know what to do.
The point of people with a value surplus is not to make up for people with a value deficit. It’s to invest that excess value to build a better future. Redistribution to the unproductive is robbing future generations.
This is important to keep sight of: intelligence is real, mostly unitary, highly heritable, and matters quite a bit. But it doesn’t automatically confer effective cognition. For example, I’d bet that assenting to the claim “trans women are women” correlates positively with IQ.
Intelligence is real (and heritable and to some degree measurable).
But!
Intelligence =\= wisdom
Intelligence =\= insight
Intelligence =\= rationality
Of course, these traits are interrelated in complex ways, and a baseline capability is likely a necessary condition for
@biocompound
The best argument is that it isn’t actually possible. China and Russia won’t pause, even if they say they’re pausing. On this view, pauseAI is a cynical ploy by our enemies to weaken our position relative to theirs. Same goes for the US govt: you know the NSA isn’t pausing.
Thank you all for your kind words. At the advice of many of you, I’ll be taking some time away from social media. I’ll be back when I’m in a better place. I am blessed to have such kind and excellent followers. Happy Easter. Hold your loved ones. The Dawn is coming.
Feeling depressed, haven’t felt this way in a while. This was my resting state for years. Feels like everything is falling apart. I don’t know what to do.
@peterrhague
You people with the constant whining about government surveillance and bureaucratic oversight. What the fuck are you people doing in your daily lives that you feel such overwhelming pressure on your freedom from the governments?
If you’ve never felt deep, terror-filled awe at someone else’s intelligence, you either don’t possess enough yourself to recognize it or you’ve wasted your life consuming the work of midwits. If you read Euler, or Hofstadter, or Land, and don’t feel reverence, you are a fool.
It will never stop being tragic that the pyramids were once covered with beautiful limestone and capped with gold, and were stripped by locals down to little more than piles of stones.
My friends have brought me back. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me, lent a kind word. I feel myself emerging from my pit of despair. Every one of you mattered to me, matters to me. The fire dimmed, but it’s flaring up again. Thank you.
To be clear, I’m not literally completely anti-immigrant. If it’s kept at less than 0.2% of the population per year and consists entirely of highly-screened 120+ IQ people, that seems beneficial.
The swaggering Viking/pirate nature of Whites is why we continue to lead in innovation. Real science is not done by stolid rule-followers. It’s done by insane geniuses with a penchant for conquest.
Why is so-called Effective Altruism almost perfectly targeted at reducing intelligence? The two main branches are
1. Maximize low-IQ population via charity.
2. Impede the production of artificial intelligence.
*I* know why these are connected, but I’m curious what they think.
I don’t understand how people can live inside modern technological society and not see the paramount value of intelligence. Electricity, internal combustion, computation, etc etc etc. Every significant improvement to the human condition has been produced by a genius.
@tracewoodgrains
I’m presumably one of those, but “cartoonish” and “over-the-top racism” aren’t meaningful responses. Provide your own paradigm under which Whites will no longer be parasitized to support other races, or you tacitly support this.
Antidepressant efficacy is inflated by the cumulative impact of publication bias, outcome reporting bias, spin, and citation bias on the evidence base.
🧵1/12
No one who argues with me about race ever follows up after I post this. Because it’s inarguable. Groups who adopt moral universalism, who reject in-group preference, will be destroyed by those who don’t. So universalism loses in the limit no matter what.
ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM STRATEGY
(I've referred to this article many times but repetition is worth it.)
The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation (2013)
"From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and
I’m taking estrogen again btw. Prepared to lose at least 1/8 my followers. It’s a good mechanism to avoid audience capture. I will do exactly what I please with my physical form. Stop me if you can. Otherwise, I will traverse the alien landscape of posthuman possibility.
Most incels seem to be blank slatist leftists at heart, who think men and women should be identical and every difference is an injustice. Yes, male and female attraction are deeply different. Men, in particular, are far more visual. Okay. Why is that bad?
The best way to reduce racial hatred is to address the causes:
1. Lock up criminals until crime rates for all groups are near-zero.
2. End welfare that has the net effect of subsidizing some groups at the expense of others.
3. Restore freedom of association.
I have found the least popular position possible: Jews often subvert Whites, and do so because of innate psychological traits. This must be guarded against. But it isn’t a grand conspiracy and they don’t eat babies. Exactly no one is happy with this, but it’s the truth.
We have to distance ourselves from woman-hating degens like Tate. Traditionalism and masculinity are about treasuring and protecting women, not denigrating them. One can believe traditional sex roles are usually best without hate. Indeed, it can and should come from love.
A lot of young men date young women who would dump them without hesitation if they happened to suddenly become 90 years old, 3’2”, and quadriplegic. but they still think what they have is love.
She doesn’t love you, she loves a combination of your characteristics.
Adults can do what they want to their own bodies, but we should drop the identity and ideological crap. You can’t change sex, but you can cosmetically modify yourself if you choose. No one has a responsibility to see you the way you wish to be seen.
Any sane society would respond to this with a Fourth Reich. What happened to us? What has dulled our spirit that we permit this? Rise up. We are not yet conquered. Embrace your heritage and expel or liquidate the invaders.
I went to an adorable bar in Tokyo last night. Room for about 15. The owner is also a tailor who hand makes 60s style clothing in his atelier upstairs.
Said a license to run it was 20,000¥ - only $120!
What if SF let people run little shops this easily? Why does it cost $100k+?
Being a person with a bunch of anticorrelated traits and views is a great way to filter followers for IQ and openness, and my views in particular also filter for low agreeability. Tldr y’all are disproportionately cool.
Why would it be bad to discriminate on race? It’s a lot more immediately detectable at low cost than, say, IQ. People seem to think race discrimination is some inherent evil. Why? It’s cost-effective.
Bisexuality is not one thing. Our language for sexuality generally does not come close to mapping the territory of the human mind accurately. Here’s an attempt to be a bit more precise:
Female bisexuality: situational, largely socially influenced. Female sexual orientations are
It’s so much easier to talk to Nietzscheans of other races than brain-poisoned White leftists. This isn’t an endorsement of multiculturalism, it’s an endorsement of elitism. Monoracial and monocultural societies are best, but the leaders can break bread and cooperate.
“You only appeal to low-agreeability people”
Correct. And we can bully the high-agreeability people into submission, but they can’t bully us because we care about truth. Appealing to the autists and psychos gives durable leverage.
Episode 3: Hereditarianism
Today on Inferring the Attractor, we're tackling one of the most controversial topics in current discourse: hereditarianism, or the view that most differences in outcomes between racial groups are due to genetics, not environment.
One last post, attempting to bring it all together:
If you want to understand the world, you need only two basic concepts: self-reference, and evolution.
Self-reference is the mirroring of a representational system’s own functioning within itself. In any finite system, this
@fchollet
We are wealthier than at any time in history, and many societies with far more subsidies for families like you’re describing don’t have higher birthrates. It’s a cultural issue, not an economic one.
MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau says "the left is loaded with demons" just like in Nazi Germany: "I don't think it's people anymore; I think you're dealing with demons talking through people."
During my suspension, I had some time to think. I would like to clarify my beliefs and goals:
1. Evolution is the only process in existence that produces value. Evolution has two components: mutation (creativity, love, birth) and selection (criticism, hate, death). Anyone trying
1. This guy is cool and impressive.
2. Wheelchairs are still impractical in a dungeon setting.
3. What does incel mean now? Is it just a generic negative label like “jerk”?
Why is everyone hating on this? This is good. Cheap labor discourages automation, population shrinkage has historically led to better quality of life. This is only false now because of our ridiculous state pension schemes. Robots >>> mass immigration.
NEW - BlackRock CEO: "The social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations."
We are not equal intellectually.
We are not equal in work ethic.
We are not equal in experiential complexity.
There is no sense in which all humans are equal. None. Stop trying to salvage this concept.
I am so, so tired of people who think slapping a label on a claim, or associating it with some hated person, or doing anything other than factually refuting it, counts as a response. I feel a trillion years old. It’s so tedious. Number one cause of my misanthropy.
Both of these things are true:
1. The Taylor Swift images are vile.
2. There is no way to regulate this without Orwellian overreach. Ultimately, if you wouldn’t ban someone drawing something with a pencil, you can’t regulate generative AI art.
How did they convince a bunch of White people to care about this one specific regional conflict? Why not the same energy for the countless other wars and disputes in the world? Ultimately, I don’t care and I don’t get why anyone who isn’t Israeli or Palestinian would.
There are no inherent rights, even negative rights like free speech. If you have them, it is because some person or group guarantees them to you with force. Rights are not self-producing, they don’t fall from the sky. They are choices made by polities.
More than a dozen Princeton University faculty members dramatically announced today that they will undertake a solidarity hunger strike for a full 24 hours to show their support for some of the anti-Israeli students that are also on hunger strike.
Episode 2: The Supposed Limitations of Mathematics
In this episode, I show how the implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems are almost universally misunderstood.
@Kat__Woods
This is all just rationalization. Increasing low IQ populations is a terrible idea, and people have a preference for their own biological children. It is the deepest possible evolutionary drive, one can’t just turn it off and love some unrelated person in exactly the same way.
China is discovering the same thing Europe did a century earlier: they will never pay back the loans, the investments won’t bear fruit. Brutality is the last desperate attempt to make it work before they write off the losses and leave them to their fate.