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Lifelong monogamous marriage still works perfectly fine. Lots of couples do it successfully. Peter Pan syndrome peaked with millennials. Younger men and women are getting married earlier.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11 11

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If you were 22 you should be looking in the university, as statistically and anecdotally that is your best shot. Collective solutions require the cult -- really we can get away with a less than totalizing system so long as we actually take behavior of memb... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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If western people's are to develop some form of ingroup preference again they will need some more firm standing and ways to maintain their alliances, as seafaring peoples they often come in contact with foreigners and will need to be able to recruit their ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8 8

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because I'm not white... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1 1 1 1

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Yes the "long run" is the open question. The vast majority of possible configurations are inoptimal, there's a reason we call it the straight and narrow, and that Dostoevsky remarked every happy family is alike.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4 4

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As the quote from Strauss (referencing Nietzsche) indicates, man's nature, unlike that of chimpanzee, extends beyond itself to nomos. There is no option to live without nomos. One can only work for a good one, one that harmonizes with and fulfills rather t... 3y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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The "what are young men supposed to do" question doesn't have a clear one-line answer, as the entire history of western philosophy is the discovery that human life does not contain one-line solutions to fundamental questions.... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8 8

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The undisputed classic on Liberia, highly recommended if you have not seen it already:... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8 8

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The question of American race relations is a good proxy for one of the most urgent fronts of the deep and fatal problems with philosophical egalitarianism and worldwide kumbaya integrationism. It's therefore worth dwelling on it occasionally in concrete de... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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I've been working out seriously for a decade, natty, and will continue to do so. I think what people forget in the natty vs natural discussions is what the point of all the hard work is. The hard work is important not because of what it gets you, but becau... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13 13

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I have studied TRT and as a man in my mid-40s, I would probably do it but for the prostate cancer that most of my male relatives have developed. I've seen one study which showed no effect of TRT on prostate cancer but the sample size was very small and it ... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2 2

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A perfect question for this board. Deeply important, completely taboo to talk about honestly.... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10 10

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I'm attaching a chart of factors associated with with reproductive success.... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1 1

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He's so close to the truth but mixes things up and gets the equation backwards (maybe intentionally?). "Social darwinism" and life (for humans and for everything else) as competition is not an "abstraction." It's the opposite. It's lived, biological, empir... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1 1

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Just joined, greetings to all.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11 11

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what is the research on this? is this just epigenetics? 11mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0 0

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Yeah "eugenic intelligence enhancement" makes no sense for the AI 2027 crowd.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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My wife and I are both not native to this American culture of alienating kids from parents. We both lived at home while going to nearby colleges, and have great relationships with our parents and parents culture. The sibling that went away to Harvard lives... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 13 13

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Your goal is misframed. You should want your kids to improve upon your way of life, not simply replicate it. That means they need to recognize it as something valuable but also have room to test its limits.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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You cannot profess a heresy without upsetting the believers. There is no clever phrasing where you deny their tenets but disclaim it in a way that makes them feel fine.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 16 16

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Yeah if we're doing politics, we're going to need a good and honest party line. What's the party line on race relations? I dunno let's figure it out here.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 16 16

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Yeah I know what Nietzsche tried to claim all this stuff was real, but he was wrong. Ultimately slave morality and master morality are just ideologies. Any other explanation of them isn't compatible with actual observation. 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4 4

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More pointedly, i dont think higher man or homeric man or anything like that is about absolute competence or anything like that. Its an interesting lens to think through but the reality is more about types, and types are about niche. Homeric man is dead be... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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Well the point of OP is that there is no natural or physical favored concept of higher life. That said there is a sort of notion of depth of the overall stack of life, the overall complexity. But that places parasites and cancers “higher” on the stack ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5 5

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This format is worse than useless: "the solution is to simply <thing that will never happen>". It leads to blackpilling and learned helplessness.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 14 14

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I think you are wrong about the relative power of substrate and software to determine what work gets done. I think the real answer to invest in children is the fact that you have a headstart on determining their memes (and gene-meme coevolution will no dou... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1 1

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I’ll give a higher effort response later but one point i will be pedantic on: what is happening since the sexual revolution is not mating. Actual mating still largely happens on the traditional monogamous model, despite some decay around the edges. The s... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8 8

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Great post and timing for it. Will write a related piece for the conversation soon.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1 1 2 2

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Precisely. LKW also masterfully stayed within the unwritten limits, thereby cementing his impact and legacy.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15 15

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We know what BAP means by "the right of the stronger and better" just like we know what Sam Hyde means by "real Americans", but that doesn't make it coherent. I'll apply that same distinction I used in >>3385 between the truth and the political formulas he... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 17 17

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“And guess what, the US/WEF consensus generally regards him as a hero. This is completely load-bearing--it's why Singapore is well integrated into the Western world, which is the only way for a modern small state to be prosperous and reasonably sovereign... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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Careful lionizing the majority of shonen-slop anime. Any true student of anime knows the japs have fallen off and have gotten increasingly tied up in uncreative repetition of dumb tropes much as our own "extended marvel cinematic universe" has taken to sim... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7 7

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This is degrowth.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11 11

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My understanding is that the biggest cities have always been fertility-negative on average for as long as we've had cities. But you are right that the most civilized types of men are the result of city-related selection. So what's going on? Would first of ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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**Background on evolution by punctuated equilibrium**... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12 12

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Another interesting paper investigating the genetic effect of capital punishment in medieval and early modern Europe. It show that the large drop in murder rate from the 14th to 20th century was, at least in part, a result of genetic selection against prop... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7 7

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Good post but I'm gonna disagree with the framing. tbh the hyperspecialized "start training for a sport while you're still in the womb and make it the sole focus of your life" stuff never seemed aristocratic to me. I understand the aristocratic focus on sp... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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Although note that the Greeks chiefly enslaved fellow Greeks. (Often from other cities, but not always.) The basis of their slavery was not primarily ethnic. 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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yeah greek slavery was often something different from what we do. They had a very different ethnic/caste/class system. Like I said, we need more words. 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4 4

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Great experiment.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10 10

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I'm with the other anon >>3068 on advising against just training the kids into company-starting bourgeois mode of being. The interesting thing would be something closer to an Asian-style industrial conglomerate: take care of your people in their whole live... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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Sure, sounds worth writing. You should go for it.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12 12

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I want to go on 2 different slightly tangents: (1) on the 'hard' vs 'soft' migration assimilation policies, with a contrast between a muscular assimilationist Singapore and an inclusionary Europe/West of 2015. (2) on the gender / age dynamics of immigratio... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4 4

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“In-group members have access in that particular industry to more talent, more capital, more assistance via their ethnic and family connections.”... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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We see this on the street every day. It's obvious the big demographic power of European civilization from the early 20th century is going and gone. Largely this was predictable and predicted a hundred years ago (Stoddard's "Rising Tide" was published 1920)... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4 4

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There's something crooked about this whole fertility discourse. It's all from the perspective of the pensioner-state doing post-national human capital farming, and can't acknowledge what's actually going on. "Oh no we need more taxpayer slaves how can we c... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10 10

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I suppose the crux here is not the cause or even what action must be taken, but the likelihood of real change.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5 5

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This conversation reminds me of an article (author I can't recall) defining four alien intelligences:... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5 5

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That sounds plausible to an economist, but "opportunity cost" is about what you value and how you narrativize the alternatives. It's not quite as simple as "people would rather have money than children", it's rather a whole lifestyle and worldview they've ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10 10

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Thank you for the breath of fresh air. I wholly agree that status is not the most important factor. The economic arguments seem completely unconvincing as it doesn't explain how in terms of "leisure time, space, and childcare help" the average person was m... 1y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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Octopi are good evidence of what I call "the worm mind hypothesis": full general intelligence emerges VERY early in evolutionary history, with worms or earlier. All later elaborations are just scale of different types of compute, and various instincts that... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7 7

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It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0 0

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I like the luther analogy. Let's stop buying the indulgences, and start calling out the true nature of socio-economic salvation. But what does that entail in practice?... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10 10

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I increasingly find notions of rational evaluation of compatibility leading to consent amusing, since there are underlying physiological mechanisms like prolonged eye contact that can spur the kind of mirror neuron self-other dissolution which operationali... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1 1

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Rereading Proverbs 31 it's clear how much it's gesturing at founding a *specifically great/noble* family as being part of the calling.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10 10 1 1

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6 6

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What do you mean by this? What I meant by the mind being an artificial world is that it has its own internal rules that aren't just its parts contending in terms of base reality. It's not a natural ecosystem, but a highly cultivated and abstracted one. I h... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3 3

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To be clear, I'm not denying that there are hard materialists, some them quite loud. What I'm describing as false is that the bad conclusions actually follow from mathematical physics. I'm objecting to your attribution of them to... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2 2

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Arguably we got mathematical science from the greeks, but I'd love to see a good historical analysis of how that happened. What greek texts were Newton and his predecessors reading? 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4 4

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I am not certain intelligence in the anthropocentric sense is what makes for civilization. I think dolphins are missing specialization among themselves. In this way, I’d see beehives or ant colonies as more likely to hit on the special sauce than dolphin... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9 9

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There will be space for many different species and subspecies of cetaceans, and therefore many kinds of dolphin culture, in our civilization. For instance, the Yangtze River dolphin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin occupy different ecological niches. Resp... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2 2

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There was an interesting post related to this and the prospect of a Biosingularity a few weeks back:... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2 2

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It's comprehensible why such themes are contentious in our Western society. Information that might disrupt societal cohesion carries inherent risks. 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0 0

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