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The replies here are depressing. It seems almost noone believes in any semblance of individual liberty now.
May 20
This is insane.
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I think you are referring to my reply which was skeptical of these surprisingly low IQ scores. You accuse me of being incredulous of any "real data" that doesn't support my priors. But it looks to me like you are being overly credulous of stories (not data) that support yours.
Jan 10
The responses to this post are a perfect example of IQ people's tendency to ignore real data that doesn't support their priors. As with Feynman's tested 126 IQ, any number they deem too low is just dismissed as a mistake.
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I don't disagree with this. But I was thinking more about the job market, where the highest paying jobs for smart people (big law, banking, tech, etc.) are scarce or nonexistent in Nebraska or similar states.
24 Sep 2025
This was often referred to as the "brain drain", it was intentionally created, it was a problem for the Heartland for decades - and it has reversed over the last 5 years.
CA now comes to top Midwestern schools, even as the Northeast goes to the South because of DEI admissions
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The critics' love of "socially conscious" rap music is itself a form of DEI. It is seen as anti-racist to enjoy this music, and so progressive critics rate it far higher than it deserves on the objective merits.
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The response to Covid-19 was one of the greatest failures of rationality in human history.
20 Sep 2024
This tweet should have ended the C-19 pandemic as we knew it
Age based IFRs made it clear that shutting down societies was not necessary
I often think back to these tables and how optimistic I was back then about getting people to look at the numbers
Surely they’d get it🙄👎
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Why wouldn't we want our far richer descendants to pay for it instead of our relatively poor selves? This seems like a straightforwardly good trade even without any future discounting.
25 May 2024
There is also a real risk that if we can mask the effects of climate change on the cheap, it gives folks license to delay mitigation and let others pay to clean it up later. We routinely discount the future, and its hard to see how it would be different in this case.
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In a hit piece on a local politician, I found a false paraphrase which attributed statements to the politician that he did not say. I contacted the reporter and editor. They both stood by the dishonest reporting.
11 Feb 2024
The amount of outright fabrication in newspapers is simply beyond the imagination of most people. Only a small percentage of the population will learn the truth the hard way when they are the subject of a hit piece.
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19 May 2023
"We should have the hard conversations out in the open"
We should talk about how Lisa Cook made her career on a completely false paper and everyone praised it publicly because she is a black woman.
"No, that's toxic and will lose you your job."
Okay, anonymity it is then.
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16 May 2023
The next Republican president should send troops into the FBI, CIA, and State Dept annexes, declassify everything they have and publish it all on the internet - including the names of agents and assets - and hit hard reset on our foreign "policy" with Russia/China.
Kill the IC.
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28 Apr 2023
BREAKING: The US Army has decided to ground all helicopter pilots, except those on critical missions, for additional training after recent helicopter crashes.
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Following this line of reasoning, every policy is discriminatory, since groups differ along all important axes. E.g. outlawing murder is discriminatory since blacks commit many more murders than other races. Obviously an absurd definition of discrimination.
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Also, they are the victims of crimes that did not personally affect them.
7 Nov 2021
The twin pillars of collectivism. You are guilty of things you didn’t do and can’t take credit (you didn’t build that) for things you did do.
