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Bio in bio.

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@heavyredaction Alternative explanation: they disagree with you.

How can you be an anthropologist and be so bad at theory of mind?

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@jessesingal

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@mattyglesias If there's a Game 6, NBA will flagrantly break the rules by not assigning an obvious flagatant point on Wemby...again.

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@mattyglesias

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@zetzugami @Censored4sure @GooseKillerinAU distinguishing virtue of human beings is the capacity of culture and cultural evolution to override natural instincts.

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@zetzugami @Censored4sure @GooseKillerinAU Point taken, though was referring to "civilization," the verb, not the noun. Just adding some pushback to appeal to natural instinct. NI can be a lamentable constraint on policy, but can't be a sufficient justification without justifying regressing to the norms of cavemen. The...

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@zetzugami @Censored4sure @GooseKillerinAU "they're very heavily propagandised not to" = civilization

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@GooseKillerinAU @zetzugami @Censored4sure Any empirical support for "America hating aliens"?

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@shudnell @DerekPederson3 He never wins in 2016 without the neutering of the party establishment. Gatekeepers would have nominated Jeb Bush.

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@shudnell @DerekPederson3 Maybe, but the result was Trump.

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@DerekPederson3 An interesting side issue in this space is "moral deference" (and lack thereof). Lots of the tradition presumes that government should consist of experts who use their knowledge to translate the public's values into policy, which aligns with a skepticism of expertise in values.

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@DerekPederson3 There's a rich tradition of democratic theory and practice regarding checks against pure, direct democracy.

Rebuttals from the left have to grapple with the rise of Trump and RFK Jr. being a function of greater democracy.

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@hecubian_devil @jessesingal Psychological diagnoses of people's beliefs (as opposed to just debating the beliefs) is epistemically sketchy.

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@ZaidJilani AI doesn't count as innovation?

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@DavidAstinWalsh Using the term, "desegregation," which people associate with southern race-based exclusion (i.e., race being sufficient), are you implying that these parents are morally compromised?

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@DanteJeffe14617 @AlexRigoV @hecubian_devil That fact seems insufficient to do much damage to the claim that IQ is a proxy for SES, insofar as "proxy," in this context, merely requires a relatively high correlation across everyone.

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@Econ_Marshall Due diligence?

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@fishstark @hecubian_devil @tracewoodgrains There's a way in which poor kid getting a 90 is on par with rich kid getting a 95. But does it translate to capacities? E.g., can poor kid who got a 90 handle the work that usually only the kids who get a 95 can handle? Separate distributing rewards from predicting capacities.