Unconditional loyalty to your team is bad for your team. All systems need to filter, to select, to expel waste. Refusing to criticize your faction is how your faction gets cancer.

Part 1 of my three-part monograph ‘Behavioral Genetics and Human Agency’ is now live at Twin Research and Human Genetics. The subtitle and abstract (pictured) should give you a quick sense of what it’s about. An Open Access link is provided at the end of this thread. 1/10

Strongly recommended! What philosophy should be.

AGP AI experts, I need help creating an image for a talk I'm giving next weekend. Let me know if you can help. (I am willing to subscribe to an AI service, if you advise me which/how.)

Characterizing AGP as a “misogyny fetish” is about as valid as characterizing AGP as “normal female sexuality”.

Young Xers, explain “retcon.” Does this mean misrepresenting one’s past for reasons?

This is an astonishingly clear description of the state of the heritability debate. A master class on how to communicate technical material to nontechnical readers. astralcodexten.com/p/missing-heri…

I don't really understand this justification. Even if someone has autogynephilia why does that mean that visceral anger/hatred/bullying is a valid response?

Adam Hibbert 🎗️ Claire Lehmann A more intellectually coherent approach would be to endeavour to understand AGP rather than to simply assume it is toxic and react with hatred. Thankfully, many who actually study this issue are doing so: x.com/profjmb/status…

Official proclamation: "Yikes!" is cringe.

We simply don’t have clear answers, yet many speak with unwarranted certainty about the validity of the existing data. First, research on the so-called “transgender brain” is marked by inconsistent and unreplicated findings. These studies are often compromised by major