Brett Andersen

Shadowbanned for truth crimes.
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[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

New substack post --> Relevance Realization, Cerebral Hemispheres, and the Reconciliation of Science and Mythology: Integrating the work of @vervaeke_john, @dr_mcgilchrist, and @jordanbpeterson. https://t.co/qtXRgre7Sp

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The Good News Is That One Side Has Definitively Won The Missing Heritability Debate, reports Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex. Actually, the real debate was won long ago: heritability of intelligence is substantially above 0. There can't be an exact "correct" estimate, because heritability is a proportion and it mathematically depends on variation in the sample. Also obvious (at leas to me): GWAS has to underestimate heritability compared to adoption & twin studies, since the latter estimate effects of the entire genome with all its interactions, & the former is capped by the number of measurable genes. (Still nice to see the gap closing.) https://t.co/QXnCGS91bB

[David Watkins @daviwat]

The Evolutionary Psychology of Meaning in Life, by @BrettPAndersen https://t.co/0AEm8Qg064

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

Mothers should not feel shame if they take Tylenol during pregnancy to relieve their severe pain. The largest systematic review ever conducted (that the administration cited!), found no association between prenatal Tylenol use and autism. Autism is highly heritable.

[Elevate Thy Gaze @elevatethygaze]

Great piece on meaning by @BrettPAndersen over at his substack at brett-p-andersen dot com

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@DrJohnVervaeke I finally get why I never really understood your beef w/ purpose.

I think of my “purpose” as participation in a process, not as the attainment of some static or final goal. But it makes sense that you’d be more anti-purpose if you construe it differently.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@robkhenderson Nah man, no worries. I did not create it. I posted it on my SS right before you posted it here. I figured you got it from my SS, but I'm not the creator.

Just messing around, I wasn't upset or anything.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@robkhenderson ... without even a courtesy like or repost. tsk tsk.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@robkhenderson Posted this on my SS an hour before you posted it here.

Coincidence? Hmm

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@AnnaLeptikon *Solzhenitsyn

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

I don't think there are good statistics for any of this. But Dostoevsky suggested in the Gulag Archipelago that the most ardent political dissidents within Russia were Christian women who refused to compromise on their faith. Men were more pragmatic according to D.

And others have pointed out that women from the lower classes (e.g., the attached) were especially likely to be targeted by the church. Maybe they were just easy targets. But it seems that women will stick up for their beliefs through death/torture, especially when they come from personal religious experiences.

I'm not even arguing against the paper. It might be that another biological substrate is at play. Just something that potentially complicates the idea that men/testosterone = doing what you believe is right.

Not to mention that everyone doing the burning of heretics (and guillotine, crosses, etc.) were men.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@paulbloomatyale Jonathan Haidt’s work on morality has been especially influential and useful. Evolutionary psych in general has been influential and useful. Behavioral genetics too.

The world would be worse off without those literatures, and there are more.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@Aristocratiq @untimelysalts N didn’t discover D till late in his career.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@darwintojesus Damn dude you’re making atheism sound cool af.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@glazkov_r @grok @SmithReloaded01 @JohnStocktonPP @DailyLoud

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@PathOfMen_ @ooscar_88 People who talk slow are just annoying, especially if they’re doing it on purpose to be “respected”.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@DerekDerek75 @YountCortesi @SkowMatthew Dude acts like he never heard of epilepsy

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@RichardHanania X shadowbanned me for linking to my substack too much (I presume, since I didn't do anything else on here). They probably only mess with smaller accounts though. Elon is truly a champion of free speech.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@robsica I’d love to read this. $129 is absurd.

[Brett Andersen @BrettPAndersen]

@razibkhan Probably correct.