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I play a grotesquely exaggerated caricature of myself on here because this platform has pretty bad incentives. In real life, I'd definitely help you change a tire, lend you some tools or tutor your kids in math-no matter how profoundly we disagree on political minutiae.
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When I was a naive young man and I heard that one of my older cousins was doing gender studies in college, I thought "wow, that sounds cool. I bet it brings together evolutionary theory, endocrinology, philosophy, history, archaeology, comparative anatomy, etc.." Nope....
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@KILLTOPARTY
Women are really excellent at embellishing how much more work they do than everyone else in their imagination.
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I miss the days when my intellectual arch enemies were creationism and scientology... simpler times.
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When you get hired as a physics professor as part of the insanely heavy handed push to bring gender parity to STEM disciplines, but it turns out you lack the ability to do actual physics, you play the only hand available to you at that point.
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I'm a PhD student in computer science at Northwestern University who is currently on leave and in the process of withdrawing because I found the academy to be far too saturated with midwit illiberal activist twits such as yourself to continue a career in it.
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@aesthdistance1
My friend (Filipino) would get tan in the summer, and her mother (half-Chinese and v. light) would tell her she looked like a "chimay," which apparently meant servant. It was more about class: People were darker if they spent more time outside working.
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I might be a psychopath.
I was at the grocery store and I saw this lanky brown kid in a keffiyeh with the most effete sociology grad student voice you've ever heard. As he was walking down the aisle, he turned to his friend and was like "Oh my god, Ritz crackers are the most
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@focusfronting
Thank you for keeping the world safe from jokes you don't like heroic white lady.
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@dickexpert
The whole point of getting married is to finally get some reprieve from the constant onslaught of BJs that is single life.
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@Nature
The loss in credibility is well deserved, given how so many once respectable publications have allowed themselves to be captured by activist editorial staff.
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I've been thinking about exactly what can be inferred from this.
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@_SemaHernandez_
Good idea, please stop using the internet, it is built on thoroughly colonial ideas.
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@FreeBlckThought
This is maybe something that would be acceptable for a really high fifteen year old to say while sitting on the curb in front of a convenience store looking at the 41 cents in his hand.
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@Steve_Sailer
@SashaGusevPosts
@StoneBiology
@Coastal_Duo
Often times when you train a model and try to explicitly prevent it from considering certain variables it will just find implicit proxies for that variable. Now maybe the AHA will predict heart attacks based on the last time smoke detector batteries were changed.
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@bizarre_names
They even invented the term "demisexual," which means people who prefer only to have sex with someone with whom they have emotional intimacy, as if such a thing were out of the ordinary for women.
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I have a new report out at
@CSPICenterOrg
called "Increasing Politicization and Homogeneity in Scientific Funding: An Analysis of NSF Grants, 1990-2020." A thread of the most important findings.
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@AlanRMacLeod
When you give non-white non-western people no sense of their own agency to fuck up their own situation that is also a form of white supremacy.
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@DrKittyGirl
Gravity is also a social construct, if you stop believing in it, you should be able to jump from a bridge and fly.
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@MrLovenstein
I used be like this. I still don't have children, but I realized "the sky is falling!!" was just a big rationalization to not commit to anything so I could just keeping living a life of terminal-adolescent self-absorption.
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This is an actual illustration from the January 2022 issue of Physics Today.. Is it crazy to think that the purpose of physics as a discipline is to learn about how nature works and not to attain representational parity among people doing a vastly inferior form of the science?
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If I get a DNA test and I find out that I have a larger than average amount of Neanderthal DNA will I be able to use that to my advantage in the academic job market? Who has ever gotten genocided and had their land stolen harder than the Neanderthals did?
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What are you doing to help mitigate the harm being caused by the ongoing whiteness pandemic?
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@CaitlinPacific
How popular would you say it is though? I think still probably a fairly small minority, and probably mostly over-credential upper middle class type people.
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@wasphyxiation
Windows is work, Macs are art school. At least that was how it shook out at that time.
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@timheidecker
@MattWalshBlog
Yes, this is all very healthy for a civilization. Civilizations always flourish once they become excessively hedonistic and narcissistically obsessed with niche sexual identities. This is the most important thing we can teach our children.
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@ggm281
We'd never be allowed to study such a subject matter honestly under the current moral regime.
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@RichardHanania
As a fairly sexually harassy white guy, I can confirm that this is in fact true. I mostly rely on latent colonialism to hit on women for me.
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East Asians are awesome at whiteness then.
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@RichardHanania
This happened at Northwestern in 2018 and a school-wide email went out about trauma and police involvement. It turned out to be a piece of yarn that an art student accidentally left on a table.
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Stanford's new Eliminating Harmful Language in IT initiative. The academy is beyond saving.
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This turned out to be the exact kind of bait I expected. People who read Lacan and think it's serious, tankies and bay area tech kids with Palestinian flags in their bios are trying to drag me now. We just need to get the autism spectrum troons in here and it'll be a real party.
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@SenLouiseLucas
@GovernorVA
Wow, really digging deep here for something to be aggrieved about. He also said entrepreneurship. I guess this is what happens when careers are made on grotesquely exaggerated performative grievance.
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Why is it so hard to meet women who are foodies that love to travel and performatively care about fashionable social causes?
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@RichardHanania
Has thinking "these people have cultural practices that are incompatible with our norms that will be pretty difficult to relieve them of," pretty much been rolled into the racism bucket at this point?
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I have a sister who is so woke, she got long-COVID without even getting regular COVID.
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In NSF grant abstracts, we see a large and consistent increase in terms related to identity politics over the last three decades. As of 2020, 30.4% of all grants had one of seven politicized terms (underrepresented, disparity, etc.) listed below, up from 2.9% in 1990.
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@ItsGoneAwry
She let go after 8 minutes and 50 seconds because she couldn't bear the strain of her own internalized misogyny anymore. Meanwhile, the guy had the whole patriarchy standing below him holding him up at the waist.
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@IGN
Homogeneous groups of 95%+ Japanese males used to make really really excellent video games and managers probably employed forms of corporal punishment to ensure deadlines were met.
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Effective Misanthropy: In order to maximize gross human suffering, do everything you can to help naive utopians ascend to power.
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@annakhachiyan
Doesn't Israel make those SodaStream things that let you carbonate whatever you want? I kind of like that vision of civilization.
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@xiaoqinai
You should see the things they give PhDs for these days. It's a rapidly declining signal.
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@clairlemon
Would a movement to pull federal funding away from schools of education and to stop subsidizing teachers getting master's degrees (from those very schools of education) that don't really enhance their ability to teach but mostly just serve to indoctrinate them offend you?
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I was on IRC in the 90s and you could say whatever you wanted about anything and it was fine. It's not like relaxing speech codes on the internet is taking us into some uncharted territory where we've never been before.
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@darelmass
@hbdchick
This graph correlates pretty well with something, but I won't say what it is.
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@LaikenJordahl
People who have never seen concertina wire on the parking garage of an upscale condo building in the downtown area of a democratic city.
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Getting dragged on the internet aside, I think there is a meaningful critique to be be made of international students who come from the upper-crust of their own society that come here and socket into our unhealthy (and very low-resolution) fetishization of the marginalized other
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I can't really get behind populism. Our elites are pretty crappy, but regular people aren't very good either. I don't really buy the whole "it's impossible to make a middle-class living" thing. People have just grown far too entitled for their own good.
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@RichardHanania
When you lack the capacity to do serious thought you just lazily transpose everything into shallow identity based grievances.
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@gelliottmorris
Ahh.. political science... the most rigorous of human endeavors.. there's definitely no way to massage survey data to make it confirm your priors..
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@Steve_Sailer
I may start using a picture of your closet as a Zoom background to see if anyone catches the dog whistle.
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@HotForMoot
Vietnamese people actually like us quite a lot because they won, and so thinking of America reminds them of a national triumph.
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@clairlemon
Way to erase those of us who are mostly amoral and just come online to posture out of boredom.
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Ok, "queer global health lawyer," we've really got to put a moratorium on issuing graduate degrees until we figure out what the hell is going on.
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@IonaItalia
This is the academy these days, if people don't like your ideas, they don't confront them directly anymore, they just use hyperbole behind your back to try and smear your reputation.
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@mbkasg
I feel the same way. I'm interesting in things aimed toward answering the questions sociology claims to be interested in-but just not totally tainted by ideology and anti-empirical priors.
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@TruueDiscipline
@Steve_Sailer
Whoah whoah whoah there buddy, you're not supposed to notice this kind of thing.
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I was one of those unfortunate people who, 15 years ago, thought that less people going to church and more people going to college would lead to a saner society...
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Politicization hurts science when it creates ideological litmus tests, as it judges the worthiness of projects based on anything other than their scientific merit. It can also decrease the credibility of science among the general public, as has happened with public health.
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Critical Race Theory isn't being taught in schools, that's just right-wing misinformation. Ohh also, we're having one of the main critical race theory ladies give the keynote address at the biggest education research conference in the world.
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@arthurianmaiden
@RichardDawkins
Did you? You clearly missed most of his points if you have fallen for all of this quasi-religious anti-scientific gender ideology.
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@RVAwonk
It's an emerging discipline that brings together affirmative action hacks who can't do the actual work in their fields so instead do thinly veiled activism and call it science.
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@IdahoBones
I just looked at your profile. You retweeted something suggesting people should be able to murder Sam Altman. Why can't I fantasize about feeding roaches to spoiled Brahmin kids larping as social justice activists?
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@primalpoly
@benshapiro
It's all performance art. She loves Western Civilization for having elevated her to the level of high-clown-priestess.
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@eyeslasho
@Mark_J_Perry
This will happen again. It's just a matter of how soon and how severely.
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@AdamRutherford
So many academic geneticists seem to have their jobs based on an ability to perform elaborate mental gymnastics and play specious word games in the service of a sort of neo-lysenkoism.
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@paulg
There are definitely confounding factors here that make it a not so straight forward one-to-one correlation. Catalytic converters, scrubbers, clean-air act, improvements in cancer treatment, etc. If cigarette sales go to zero lung cancer deaths will certainly not follow that low.
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@bog_beef
She's Cenk Uygur's cousin or something. fuckk.. why do we know who Cenk Uygur is though?
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So why have so many sexual taboos been so thoroughly dissolved by modernity when the cousin incest taboo is as strong or stronger than it was 100 years ago? Are there not any weirdo tech founders with tons of money to throw into pro-incest non-profits?
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There is a letter going around calling for the head of the editor of a European psychology journal that looks mostly like woke histrionics to me.
I ran a script that identifies the likely gender of signatories based on first name:
F: 475, M: 270, likely-F: 46, likely-M: 21
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@dharmawarrior3
Spoiled Brahmin, who are themselves the beneficiaries of thousands of years of caste based inequality, installing themselves at the top over here and then doing fashionable social justice larping all the while conspicuously signaling their high status tastes by shitting on the
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This is true of all fields. As of 2020, the most politicized field was Education & Human Resources at 53.8%, up from 4.3% in 1990. Yet even the hard sciences have seen the same trends. Mathematical & Physical Sciences has gone from 0.9% to 22.6%, and Engineering, 1.6% to 25.4%.
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@clairlemon
What about also hating the class of entrenched civil servants who would capture a lot of the money generated by increasing the taxes of private sector elites?
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Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Peter Thiel, and others have discussed stagnation in scientific innovation. This report highlights two problems in NSF funding that might be infecting other areas of science: politicization and the contraction in what kind of ideas are acceptable.
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@clairlemon
Hey Claire, carrots are good for you! You better eat these carrots or we're going to send you to a place until you agree to eat the carrots. If you don't eat the carrots you will eventually be adding undue burden on our healthcare system which will harm your fellow citizens.
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@jeremycyoung
All of our universities no long have alchemy programs because at some point we collectively determined that alchemy was not a serious pursuit, unfortunately modern universities are rife with things far less serious things that alchemy these days.
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@focusfronting
You do know that there are tech venture capitalists who basically share my views and don't at all mind hiring people who have done wrongspeak so long as they are competent coders right?
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The great neuroticism filter.
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Here are some more graphs demonstrating the point, showing a rise in the terms "diversity", "equity", "inclusion", and "underrepresented" across the seven NSF directorates.
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@AuronMacintyre
A more nuanced remix of that classic expression: "It used to be an anti-semite was someone who didn't like the Jews, now an anti-semite is someone who doesn't go along with the foreign policy prescriptions of a small subset of Jews and Evangelicals."
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@RitaPanahi
That is definitely the scarf and hairstyle of someone who is about to tell you that the idea of 3-dimensional space is a colonialist construct.
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Here are "marginalize", "Latinx", and those containing at least two of the three terms "diversity", "equity", and "inclusion."
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