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America isn't going to become Brazil. It already is Brazil.
According to the 2020 census, the United States was 57.8% non-Hispanic white. ... posted 24h ago with 3 replies 7 7

America isn't going 7 7

I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am. ... 5h ago 0 0

I wrote quite a leng 0 0

Sub 1.6 TFR = 50% less people in 3 generations. What now?
Marko’s thread I linked put the fertility rate problem into a very clear perspective. If society doesn’t course correct, there won’t be that many people in the future. South Korea will be around 4% of its current population within 3 generations. ... posted 3d ago with 8 replies 9 9

Sub 1.6 TFR = 50% le 9 9

I suppose the crux here is not the cause or even what action must be taken, but the likelihood of real change. ... 12h ago 1 1

I suppose the crux h 1 1

The problem with multicultural and multiracial societies and how to, or not to organize society
One way not to organize society is to bring together different groups of people of different ancestral origins based on meritocratic traits which you choose and expect them to gel together based on an artificially created "national identity". ... posted 11mo ago with 6 replies 3 3

The problem with mul 3 3

I think you're right on all counts. The nation-state is done, historically at least if not conceptually. The pull of online/commercial/industrial/financial/scientific universal civilization seems to dissolve everything else into tendencies within itself. S... 2d ago 3 3

I think you're right 3 3

The Indian problem
The Indians have invaded the Anglo-speaking internet and are taking over the UK and America. Indians are much more politically savvy than the Chinese and accustomed to competing in electoral politics. They have infiltrated Silicon Valley, become CEOs of im... posted 10mo ago with 18 replies 7 7

The Indian problem 7 7

I mostly agree with the following: ... 3d ago 1 1

I mostly agree with 1 1

What if the extended human phenotype is natural and convergent?
Samo Burja's thesis is that civilization is part of the "extended human phenotype", as dam building is in the beaver's phenotype, and older than we think. In this model, properly savage hunter-gatherers are either more associated with nearby civilization t... posted 2w ago with 9 replies 13 13

What if the extended 13 13

This conversation reminds me of an article (author I can't recall) defining four alien intelligences: ... 3d ago 4 4

This conversation re 4 4

The Domestic Product. Ben Hoffman explains low fertility: we are poor where it counts (benjaminrosshoffman.com) posted 2w ago with 10 replies 15 15

The Domestic Product 15 15

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... 1w ago 9 9

Thank you for the br 9 9

How to make Superbabies
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DfrSZaf3JC8vJdbZL/how-to-make-superbabies posted 2mo ago with no replies 5 5

How to make Superbab 5 5

Breeding octopuses
Our last common ancestor with cephalopods dates back 600 million years. For reference, dinosaurs roamed Earth only 252–66 million years ago. ... posted 3mo ago with 5 replies 10 10

Breeding octopuses 10 10

It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence. ... 3mo ago 1 1

It's self-organizati 1 1

Ranking Socio-Economic Factors
I understand this tweet thread as saying there is some feature F that is mostly innate that determines the wellbeing and health of a society. Some people have F and when they're with others who have F, they naturally create the Good Society the way beavers... posted 4mo ago with 7 replies 5 5

Ranking Socio-Econom 5 5

Two more for good measure: ... 4mo ago 5 5

Two more for good me 5 5

Was "going steady" a positive or negative
When I read biographies about people who came of age in the first half of the 19th century, I notice something very different about their courtship. ... posted 13mo ago with 11 replies 15 15 2 2

Was "going steady" a 15 15 2 2

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... 8mo ago 2 2

I increasingly find 2 2

Are foldy ears an indicator of intelligence?
https://kaiwenwang.com/writing/hypothetical-foldy-ears-as-an-indicator-of-intelligence ... posted 11mo ago with 8 replies 3 3

Are foldy ears an in 3 3

Your father's ears also likely change with sun exposure. I'm reminded of a picture of a truck driver who had much more sun damage to one side of his face compared to the other. ... 11mo ago 1 1

Your father's ears a 1 1

Clear guidance for women
Although I expect that most here will be men, I want to ask: What should we encourage young women to do? ... posted 13mo ago with 31 replies 19 19 2 2

Clear guidance for w 19 19 2 2

I like to use this framing if you're a woman: ... 11mo ago 6 6

I like to use this f 6 6

By what means to the Ubermensch? Four possible paths for superhuman development.
I want to explore the possible nature (in the physical sense) of the ubermensch. There are four paths to the ubermensch I've heard seriously proposed which depend on entirely different "technology" stacks and which have somewhat different assumptions about... posted 12mo ago with 5 replies 8 8

By what means to the 8 8

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... 12mo ago 3 3

What do you mean by 3 3

Soil and Blood: A Defense of Magical Dirt Theory
Consider the development of a particular man under two different ecosystem inputs. ... posted 13mo ago with 39 replies 9 9

Soil and Blood: A De 9 9

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 ... 12mo ago 2 2

To be clear, I'm not 2 2

Racemixing: Ever? Never?
In this sphere it is common, even among non-wignats (and when I say wignat, I mean The Right Stuff dot Biz, not Hyperboreans from Atlantis), to assume that racemixing is guaranteed to result in the decay of the human and of the nation. ... posted 13mo ago with 2 replies 4 4

Racemixing: Ever? Ne 4 4

I understand where you are coming from, fair. 13mo ago 2 2

I understand where y 2 2

The Philosopher's Diet (general dietary wisdom thread)
I've never been tempted to take the peat pill. I get my diet advice from Plato, Tacitus, and ibn Khaldun: the Guardians should eat simple diet of roast meat and avoid allowing Corinthian girlfriends to feed them decadent food. The ancient Germans were stro... posted 13mo ago with 4 replies 9 9

The Philosopher's Di 9 9

One of my biggest frustrations is that people are quick to seek nutritional advice when nutritional self-experimentation is incredibly easy. ... 13mo ago 3 3

One of my biggest fr 3 3

Heredity and Character
Today’s “scientific racists” sometimes tend to discard all of human psychology except for IQ, because IQ is almost the only part of psychology that’s been quantified in a way that adds more signal than noise. This isn’t unique to the study of rac... posted 13mo ago with 18 replies 13 13 2 2

Heredity and Charact 13 13 2 2

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? 13mo ago 5 5

Arguably we got math 5 5

The Dolphin Question
Now that there are some more people on here I think the hour has dawned to unleash the DQ: the Dolphin Question. ... posted 13mo ago with 22 replies 15 15 2 2

The Dolphin Question 15 15 2 2

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... 13mo ago 3 3

There will be space 3 3

Strong genomic selection is almost feasible, and no one cares?
Strong genomic selection is the ability to create people who have genomes that are strongly selected--by several standard deviations--for some trait. Strong genomic selection would be a civilizational game-changer. For the price of a car, or less, accordin... posted 13mo ago with 5 replies 9 9

Strong genomic selec 9 9

There was an interesting post related to this and the prospect of a Biosingularity a few weeks back: ... 13mo ago 3 3

There was an interes 3 3

Book Club: Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
Dr Alamariu dropped his groundbreaking dissertation last year and by now you have all had a chance to read it. Let's read it again and discuss. This book really hits hard doing two related things that I think are of supreme importance: ... posted 1y ago with 37 replies 18 18

Book Club: Selective 18 18

Agreed, the cover is what provides security, and provides a barrier to external threats (impeccability). For an internet community, especially considering possible threat models, this sort of barrier is far stronger than material security, say, in the form... 14mo ago 5 5

Agreed, the cover is 5 5