avi

amateur low level sociologist, amateur linguist
{insert social construct here}-abolitionist zoomer
i studied statistics and i will appeal to my authority, sir

[avi @thotsminning]

women don’t even have to be women, and in fact they shouldn’t

[nim @nim_chimpsky_]

The opposite of Paris Syndrome is Americans visiting Copenhagen and realizing that civilized urbanism does exist but they'll never have it

[avi @thotsminning]

dry humping is the main course, penetrative sex is just the dessert, which ur allowed to skip and in fact should

[grimoireApologist @grimoireapolog1]

i feel like i actually don’t want penetrative sex i think i just want a big hairy guy to hump me loudly & put all of his body weight on me

[avi @thotsminning]

who got the tpot ignore list

[avi @thotsminning]

@fruitpibble stop deleting ur cptsd posts i need the lore for this cuz same

[avi @thotsminning]

@foster_type dude is spelled dood

[avi @thotsminning]

natalists will contort themselves into pretzels to convince u that forcing another person into existence is good for ur autonomy actually, in truth, they just need more personal poetic ceremony to inwardly justify and outwardly prescribe their own selfishness

[yatharth ༺༒༻ @AskYatharth]

i'm confused why people think having kids is cutting down options. the childless don't have the option to wake up in a house with their child. they don't have the option to go to their first play. they don't get the option to pass down the olympian torch of life. all they have is

[avi @thotsminning]

ok so rationalism is just a flavor of empiricism slop got it

[avi @thotsminning]

like iq, everything in this post is made the fuck up to make u suffer

[asparagoid @asparagoid]

Wrong, but the truth is actually quite interesting

Higher IQ people can accurately peg the intelligence of lower IQ people

And most lower IQ people can sense when they're dealing with someone smarter. But the lower IQ person usually has no idea how much smarter the higher IQ person is

They are unable to discern whether they're dealing with a 10 point or a 40 point difference

This leads the lower IQ person to do things like misperceive verbose or studious people as hyperintelligent, confusing knowledge/memory and even pretentious tryharding for intelligence

When in reality, these "hyperintelligent" people may be just a few hairs above them in real fluid intelligence

Likewise, they wouldn't be able to identify a real genius from their mental output and could easily peg someone 150+ as 110-120 if asked

Because fundamentally, they cannot understand what intelligence actually looks like in practice. They only have a crude mental model of it. And a lot of this model is down to the stress/friction they feel when trying to understand someone. And the most obvious friction is when someone uses big words and concepts

While they are much less likely to have this high friction experience with someone truly hyperintelligent, either because they stay quiet, or because that person is smart enough to change their register depending on who they're talking to

For instance, Edward Teller said of John Von Neumann (likely 180-200 IQ)

"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my three-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.”

What's much harder for someone higher IQ to perceive in someone lower is emotional and ethical/moral processing. Even if they can identify the baseline level of intelligence in a person, it's a struggle to understand why they act because they do not relate to this experience

For instance, someone acting out of fear, irrational anger, shortsighted greed, jealousy, shame and other impulsive emotions. The higher IQ person tries to find a logic and clarity in it that doesn't exist. While the lower IQ person's reality just involved a bombardment of intense emotions they reacted to in the only way they knew

There was never the capacity to zoom out or process it through a rational part of the mind. And in this regard, there's no logical clarity for the higher IQ person to reach about "why" the lower IQ person did what they did, except that they are driven by a mess of reactive emotionality that they neither see clearly, nor even care to see clearly

Higher IQ people also struggle with understanding ethical/moral choices in lower IQ people. They project their own values because they feel so fundamental and unquestioned to their identity that they cannot even imagine someone not valuing it

For instance, values like fairness, reciprocity, care for a shared environment, and other long term social games that are net positive for all over time. Lower IQ people instead may live in a world of getting all you can get, assuming others will screw you first, seeing it as another person's problem or stupidity, and so on

An example of this at scale is mass migration to the west, where relatively intelligent Westerners cannot grok that less intelligent migrants have zero care or awareness of their values, and will end up suffering the consequences of it

Higher IQ people also misread other high IQ people in the same ethical/moral axis, but the interesting thing is that it still happens even when someone is significantly more intelligent than another person or group, because it's down to their own projection rather than active deception

[avi @thotsminning]

@tkdrma1 @_fallenstarborn there are no white people because whiteness was invented by the social hegemon to dominate the outgroup, and yes the original tweet is nonsense, everyone tans, they are just being white supremacist

[avi @thotsminning]

@aGuyOnMyPhone not that the violence proxy argument makes sense in the first place, but it especially doesn’t make sense in america where the 2nd amendment is gender-neutral (wokely)

[avi @thotsminning]

how do i only see tweets from ppl in sf and not from ppl in nyc like ur literally a different country i’m a bay exceptionalist

[avi @thotsminning]

@PippengerHarlo Gramscian hegemonymaxxing is fire, stealing that

[avi @thotsminning]

@ChronoNEKO95 ahh didn’t know there was one, evidently supergirl does dominate media tho, regardless, referring to women as girls is so commonplace it doesn’t even need an example from media for ppl to recognize the linguistic norm

[avi @thotsminning]

what’s worse is that “man - girl” is also socially integrated e.g. superman vs supergirl, even tho iirc canonically supergirl is literally older, a great reminder that infantilization can be embedded in gendered language semantics

[Desires @DesiresAreGrey]

gendered terms by age group

boy - girl
guy - girl
man - woman

this always was kinda odd to me like why isn’t there a unique female term in the middle like how there is with guy

[avi @thotsminning]

the dimorphism itself too is socially constructed, the axes along which we categorize and populate the “sex distribution” are entirely invented under the false auspices of social utility, we must dissolve and minimize the influence this imagined “sex” category has on our society

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Human sexual dimorphism being so weak relative to other sexed species is the fundamental basis for my stubborn belief that nearly all observed gender differences are nurture, not nature, and therefore the problems are definitely fixable through culture

[avi @thotsminning]

@warrbo @EndlessBummer85 @kgelner @Aella_Girl @hecubian_devil i would avoid an assertion of predictive utility and rather zone in on its descriptive utility, e.g. an analysis of what social norms would produce such results and “are these norms good?”

[avi @thotsminning]

this actually demonstrates the hegemonic social saturation of the individualization of suffering, say the button had the same effect on everyone on earth, achieving maximum happiness under the status quo, modern psychology practices implement this “preferable” direction

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

@hecubian_devil do u not find it interesting the majority of ppl say yes

[avi @thotsminning]

one must go to name brand schools to find business partners of “worthy status”, the complete flattening of educational pursuits to a cynical vacuous branding of the self, for what purpose? to develop products to sell

[mads campbell @martyrdison]

college is going to become completely irrelevant, especially community college

the only point of going to college will be to make friends, socialize, find a husband/wife, and maybe pick up new hobby

the highest impact schools will be the harvards, yales, and stanfords of the world, not because of what they teach, but because that is where you have a chance of meeting those of a status worthy of working alongside in the future

not to get a degree that, despite being free, is still useless

[avi @thotsminning]

@anarch97 i think a hyper granular accounting of all suffering on earth would suffice, but it wouldn’t matter, even with a higher resolution view of the brutality, the way to cope with it will always be “a robust delusion” like it is with the limited descriptions we employ today

[avi @thotsminning]

@tomieinlove if only the masses knew how made the fuck up directing the training of statistical models is