Anti-transhumanism will go the way of every other luddite movement: it will lose because it defines itself by opposition to a form of power. Power wins in the end. Even if 80% of people reject transhumanism, the 20% will be so powerful they’ll be the only people who matter.

This should result in instant deportation.

A lot of people don’t understand the MZ/DZ twin study design, and so raise objections that the study design was created to address. All models of human differences, both hereditarian and environmentalist, predict that children will be more similar to their parents than to a

Girls: have some goofy, non-political fun Half the internet: “this is why the West has fallen!!1!”

I think that companies should be allowed to offer people whatever drivers they want. If women want women drivers, the market should be allowed to provide that. This is why I oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A question for men: can you ever imagine yourself doing something like this? Would this be your move if you were poor (by Western standards)? If not, then this person is fundamentally different from you, and that should affect how you think about his prospects for rehabilitation.

Being liked is not a human right.

Giving people $1000/month for three years didn’t improve their lives in any measurable way. This is exactly what I’d predict as a person who believes poverty is caused by dysfunctional psychological traits. Weird how that model always works yet gets little academic attention.

“Rizz is pretty much just making the other person feel seen & appreciated without *needing* anything from them” Very true and important. People like to feel understood, and instinctively recoil when they feel like you’re trying to get something from them.

The belief that those with more status than you have their place not only despite their lack of virtue but because of it is one of the most psychologically damaging memes. It can one-shot people into miserable hopeless whiners. Unfortunately, it is also sometimes true.

Just walked by two construction workers in Portland. Both white. One was saying post-9/11 reddit atheist takes to the other in a very gay voice.

Political pro-tip: don’t be a weird ghoul to private individuals like this. We are not going to overturn Loving v Virginia, and you alienate people who might be your ally regarding actually achievable policy goals.

Academics spent decades saying gibberish like “sex is a spectrum” or “epigenetic trauma explains group differences” with the same air of authority with which they said true things about science, and now are acting baffled and indignant that they’ve lost trust and funding.