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Is It Better For A Woman To Have An Iq Of 140 Or Above And Be Average Looking Or Less, Or To Have An Exceptional Physical Beauty That Defies Age With An Iq Of 100?
It’s actually the wrong question. It is better to have fewer defects than to have extraordinary advantages. LOOSE STATISTICS After a family makes 100K a year (50k each), they do not get happier with more income. After an individual has an IQ above 105 they do not get happier with more. After an individual has…
What Was The Main Cause Of America’s Rise Of Capitalism Steel, Oil Or Railways?
Neither. It was selling off a conquered continent to new settlers. Then selling those settlers goods and services. Then financing that territory, homes, goods, services, and educations. Even today the primary driver of the american economy and the reason for american consumption is housing. https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-main-cause-of-America-s-rise-of-capitalism-steel-oil-or-railways
Roughly, What Percentage Of Historical Humans Have Procreated?
Historically, as a general rule of thumb, something on the order of a third of men and two thirds of women. With periods of punctuated equilibriums where a small number of men generate a vast number of offspring. https://www.quora.com/Roughly-what-percentage-of-historical-humans-have-procreated
If You Were Given 10 Trillion Dollars, A Team Of The World’s Best Scientists And The Use Of Any Scientific Facility Or Facilities In The World And You Were Told To Solve One Scientific Problem What Would It Be?
There are a few well known ‘hard problems’. 1) The unnecessary senescence of cells2) A battery with the energy density of gasoline.3) The constitution of dark matter (the missing ‘charges’)4) General Artificial Intelligence. I suspect that we will solve them in reverse order.All of the problems are seemingly solvable – just very expensive. https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-given-10-trillion-dollars-a-team-of-the-worlds-best-scientists-and-the-use-of-any-scientific-facility-or-facilities-in-the-world-and-you-were-told-to-solve-one-scientific-problem-what-would-it-be
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Someone is really stalking me. They found an ancient post. Reported it. And another 30 days. lol OMG Well, they are just creating a market – that I’ll filll.
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Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30% by your genetic code. 40% by your location. –CEO of Aetna.
Is Conflict Costly?
—“Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A friend Thats not true. (It’s a common libertarian trope.) We have MADE conflict increasingly costly. However, predation is incredibly rewarding and every expansionary empire in history is evidence of it. Hell, american ascendence, and american quality of life is perhaps the best…
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—“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others…
We Evolved to ‘feel’ What Is Good for Our Survival in The Pack.
Just to throw a little operational science in here – humans are happiest when they succeed at controlling their conditions (responsibility) and when they intuit they ‘fit’, are ‘productive’, and ‘won’t be left behind’ (meaning) becauses it reduces the subconscious effort to status-seek or prevent status loss at the cost of cellular damage to zero.…
Can White History Be Told Without Black Participation?
Obviously, since black participation is relatively meaningless. European civilization’s empiricism begins 4500 years ago. We dragged mankind kicking and screaming out of ignorance, poverty, superstition, disease, hard labor, and tyranny – kicking and screaming all the while. Both in the early bronze age, the ancient world, and the modern world, with a brief halt to…
What Do You Think About Anarchism?
Anarchism is a nonsense word invented as a trope in the same way the capitalism vs socialism are nonsense words invented as tropes – in order to distract from and avoid the causal problem: whether one is ruled by rule of law versus discretionary rule (not rule of law, but rule by command, rule by…
How Did Xi Jinping’s Daughter Get Into Harvard?
Harvard’s seeks to ‘acquire’ an inventory of future leaders. Any criteria that might produce a future leader is sufficient. That’s the selection process in an nutshell. And that is the reason for their market leadership. Harvard and Yale were originally THEOLOGICAL institutions producing talent for the clergy that performed society’s managerial functions – and by…
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—“What would happen to the US economy if (scenario 1) the top 5% unleashed all their savings or (scenario 2) put away gradually more into savings?”— I think others have answered this closely but I’ll try to add some precision: *There are no such savings to be unleashed*. It’s already put to use,…
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Retweeted Outsideness (@Outsideness): “I want freedom.” “I want equality.” — So do both, in different places. It’s not that freaking difficult.
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Retweeted Outsideness (@Outsideness): Once democracy becomes fundamentally and explicitly about opening the gates (demographic replacement, or not) it becomes a death match. Discuss.
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Retweeted Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit): This makes clear the legal basis for Jared Taylor’s lawsuit. The law in California seems pretty clear: private entities can’t restrict speech if they provide an important forum for public debate. I think it’s got a real shot at success. https://t.co/xMPZMW98qz
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—“Leftism is a totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold. In part this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism; everything contrary to leftist beliefs represents Sin. That is, the leftist’s real motive…
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by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian argument that (a) the West was already great and that through this greatness, the West made the alien religion of Christianity great (rather than the narrative that Christianity saved and made the West great) and (b) Christianity is a slave religion / religion…
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by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum where they end up being reduced to snippets or truisms (e.g., what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger). Most people don’t understand where the ideas come from. I hear people throwing out postmodernist arguments…
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by Moritz Bierling —“There is a way forward that actually heals those rifts. It’s just that “we won’t take sh*t” anymore”—