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  • The Atlantic’s 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits.

    Retweeted Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer): Here are demographics of “The Atlantic’s” 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits. I found backgrounds of 48.5 of the 50: 96% white 82% male 50% ethnically Jewish 23% ethnically R Catholic 20% ethnically Protestant 3% Armenian 2% black 1% Hisp 2% Muslim https://t.co/O8JMvNw3wj

  • The Atlantic’s 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits.

    Retweeted Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer): Here are demographics of “The Atlantic’s” 2009 Atlantic 50 list of the 50 most influential pundits. I found backgrounds of 48.5 of the 50: 96% white 82% male 50% ethnically Jewish 23% ethnically R Catholic 20% ethnically Protestant 3% Armenian 2% black 1% Hisp 2% Muslim https://t.co/O8JMvNw3wj

  • More on The Economics of Neurons

    by Pat Ryan Neurons don’t have a complete nucleus. Evolution has determined that letting neurons go through mitosis is a terrible idea and when you think about it, that makes sense. If I can just conjure up a huge amount of neurons to process all of the information the universe can generate, I will quickly run myself out of glucose and oxygen to the point of death. So… any organism that went down the road of mitosis scale died for those reasons and only neurons that were denied access to mitosis persisted. That means a fundamental disconnect between genetic cognition and neural cognition: Genetics operates on exponential scales to match inputs, but neurons operate by intentionally limiting inputs. You just can’t see every photon a light bulb generates or you’re going to literally die very quickly. Therefore, what you see about reality is the direct byproduct of this lack of scale-driven neural mitosis. This is the root mechanism responsible for “awareness” and is the core part of all evolution of intelligence. The alternative is a slime mold, which DOES go through mitosis and operates somewhat like a colony of neurons.. but it cannot get beyond that state because there is no pressure to manage established connections when you can just always grow outward to solve your problems. Locationists can suck it! Entropy is the only way!

  • More on The Economics of Neurons

    by Pat Ryan Neurons don’t have a complete nucleus. Evolution has determined that letting neurons go through mitosis is a terrible idea and when you think about it, that makes sense. If I can just conjure up a huge amount of neurons to process all of the information the universe can generate, I will quickly run myself out of glucose and oxygen to the point of death. So… any organism that went down the road of mitosis scale died for those reasons and only neurons that were denied access to mitosis persisted. That means a fundamental disconnect between genetic cognition and neural cognition: Genetics operates on exponential scales to match inputs, but neurons operate by intentionally limiting inputs. You just can’t see every photon a light bulb generates or you’re going to literally die very quickly. Therefore, what you see about reality is the direct byproduct of this lack of scale-driven neural mitosis. This is the root mechanism responsible for “awareness” and is the core part of all evolution of intelligence. The alternative is a slime mold, which DOES go through mitosis and operates somewhat like a colony of neurons.. but it cannot get beyond that state because there is no pressure to manage established connections when you can just always grow outward to solve your problems. Locationists can suck it! Entropy is the only way!

  • Taxation

    by Bill Anderson —-“A small group of people gather together and then invent debts that the rest of some population owes them, then goes about publicizing and collecting those invented debts.”— J R Fibonacci Hunn I think you’re addressing a couple of issues in your larger post: the money system and taxation. Let me address taxation in the quote above. Taxation is an attempt to resolve the free rider problem in group defense. If a group does not defend its territory and resources (including its pool of breeding females) then it will be conquered. This defense and its related expenses is unavoidable. Who pays these costs? Given the choice, many males will choose to avoid paying the costs of defense (understandably having an incentive to avoid the pain and death of war). But the result of allowing some men to free ride on the backs of those providing very dangerous defense services, is that the group may be unable to defend itself and will be conquered. Thus, the fighting males and those with the longest time horizons will bar free riding, by requiring all males to pay for the defense of the group. These required payments for group defense are the origin of taxation, and are unavoidable. Your other point has to do with abuses of the money system (and taxation), which you rightly intuit as parasitism. Every generation must secure its own freedoms, and the price is violence. A people who are unwilling to defend their interests with violence will be conquered, either from without or within.

  • RT @DegenRolf: An affront to common sense: Liberals are more likely to attribute

    RT @DegenRolf: An affront to common sense: Liberals are more likely to attribute human characteristics to genetic causes than conservatives…


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 15:18:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996409596242726912

  • Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): Men with higher testosterone levels used more

    Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    Men with higher testosterone levels used more swear words and sexual language directed at their romantic partner. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23136?campaign=wolearlyview https://t.co/unYQ2FleEM


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 15:18:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996409527548436480

  • RT @DegenRolf: Men with higher testosterone levels used more swear words and sex

    RT @DegenRolf: Men with higher testosterone levels used more swear words and sexual language directed at their romantic partner. https://t.…


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 15:18:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996409448674578432

  • RT @whyvert: “transformed the Eurasian steppes from being inhabited by Indo-Euro

    RT @whyvert: “transformed the Eurasian steppes from being inhabited by Indo-European speakers of largely West Eurasian ancestry to the most…


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 14:40:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996400050489188352

  • Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf): The brains of more intelligent individuals ar

    Retweeted Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf):

    The brains of more intelligent individuals are interconnected to a lesser extent, having less dendrites at command in the cerebral cortex. http://news.rub.de/presseinformationen/wissenschaft/2018-05-15-neurowissenschaft-weniger-vernetzte-gehirne-sind-intelligenter https://t.co/jFgDE6WS2H


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 13:37:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996384039975178240