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Remedial sex ed for zoomers: you're still an incel in the eyes of God
Millennial "dating" woes are going viral again, with gen z set up to do even worse (nearly half are incels). Fertility rates are spiraling. All discourse on the subject is from terminally ngmi femcels who have no idea what they are talking about. As a mill... posted 1w ago with 7 replies received eugenics

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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.... 7d ago received

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Mostly agree with OP but let me lay out the counterpoint for those that want it.... 2h ago received

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How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.
Anon asks how to find a good woman in 2025. I've been out of the game for a while and experience only generalizes so much, but success is informative, so I have some thoughts.... posted 3d ago with 20 replies received eugenics

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In the domain of our careers it is best to play to our strengths in order to be maximally competitive. In the realm of the personal and romanic I think the addressing our weaknesses and filling in our gaps is most important. It is a meme but "try ball room... 5h ago received

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Yes this is why "I can save her" is literally committing SIMPpuku 3h ago received

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What form of life does nature consider highest?
Empirically, literal yeast life wins the contest of sheer biomass. The untouchable prokaryotic bacterial masses that recycle the world's biological waste out-masses everything else. On that theme we're also soundly beaten by hive insects like ants and such... posted 1w ago with 7 replies received eugenics gnon nietzsche

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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... 3d ago received

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Yes, saying one thing and doing the opposite is a yeast attack against the truthful and moral. So is the usage of intonation in the voice to suggest things.... 3d ago received

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Post-human bodies
Terraforming is sentimental. It presumes the primacy of the human envelope. But biology is just legacy code. The correct trajectory is not world-building but self-rewriting. Recompile the body for hostile environments. Speciate to fit. Martian gravity is a... posted 4w ago with 9 replies received accelerationism eugenics

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Nice provocation. I agree that mass speciation is inevitable, but the timescales do matter if we’re talking about this as an engineering problem. Which we should. I offer the example of Oymyakon, where the average winter temperature is around -50f. It is... 4w ago received

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Take it one step further. Why bipedal fleshy animals at all?... 4w ago received

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For a long time, I found the robot progeny idea inevitable yet distasteful. I now find it inevitable and aesthetically pleasing. Your characterization of bodiless-ness as the ultimate body is powerful.... 6d ago received

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The Second Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student. Political fiction of Meritocracy
The J'Accuse people (and Amarnites in general) are up to something interesting but I don't entirely understand it. This little story starts out describing the "Examinations of the Crossworld Meritocracy", a ritualized gaokao for citizens of a future politi... (substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies received politics eugenics

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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... 2w ago received

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White Identitarian Symbology
I'm not sure what percent of this board is supportive of White identitarianism/nationalism (a survey would be interesting), but even if only as a theoretical exercise: It is undeniable the power symbols have in unifying, directing, and coordinating a mass ... posted 1mo ago with 8 replies received politics eugenics

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FWIW many parts of white identitarianism have flowed into techno-optimism. The rebranding seems necessary to survive the current sociopolitical millieu. The interesting question is what this rebranding misses; for instance, are there elements of Anglo-Saxo... 1mo ago received

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I think the techno-optimist/Faustian faction is a good gesture towards what a revitalized Western Anglo-Saxon identity and ideology might look like. Focusing on the content of national/racial identity rather than a purely empty identitarian label that incl... 2w ago received

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Ancient homonid populations ?
Are there any geneticspilled posters here ? I would like to know about your most wild and speculative theories about ancient homonids, hybridization events, currently living ancient homonids, etc ... I suspect Erectus walks among us. I have seen men like t... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received history eugenics

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**Background on evolution by punctuated equilibrium**... 2mo ago received

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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... 3w ago received

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Roland-Garros and aristocratic institutions
I watched the French Open men's final on Sunday. The combatants were Jannik Sinner, a 23 year old German-blooded Italian, and Carlos Alcaraz, a 22 year old Spanish Moor. Great match, but I miss the elegance and athletic beauty of Federer. As a man of tenni... (www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com) posted 1mo ago with 1 reply received eugenics

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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... 1mo ago received

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Help me fill out my ethnic group characteristics chart
3106 considers the weighting of civilizations, or one might use writing systems to segment (https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/what-is-civilisation). But what if we just consider the similarities and characteristic traits between peoples?... (kamilkazani.substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies received eugenics

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Non-Linear Ethnic Niches. Arctotherium explains how diversity causes market fracture
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/non-linear-ethnic-niches posted 3mo ago with 2 replies received eugenics economics

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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.”... 3mo ago received

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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 3mo ago with 3 replies received politics eugenics

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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)... 3mo ago received

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 3mo ago received

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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.... (x.com) posted 3mo ago with 8 replies received eugenics

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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... 3mo ago received

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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.... 3mo ago received

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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".... (buttondown.email) posted 14mo ago with 6 replies received politics eugenics

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Frankly, I do not believe homogenous nation-states as they have existed for the last few centuries will remain the dominant paradigm. Not only can men traverse the planet in less than a day now, but culture becomes fundamentally transnational and antilocal... 3mo ago received

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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... 3mo ago received

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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 3mo ago with 9 replies received eugenics

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I think this is only true given the human genome, not all viable genomes. Consider the octopus. Consider the advanced space octopus from Alpha Centauri. I have low confidence that it would converge on the "human" in as strong a sense as the above suggest.... 3mo ago received

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

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

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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 6mo ago with 5 replies received eugenics gnon

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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... 6mo ago received

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It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence.... 6mo ago received

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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... (x.com) posted 6mo ago with 7 replies received eugenics

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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?... 6mo ago received

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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 1y ago with 11 replies received eugenics

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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... 11mo ago received

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Are foldy ears an indicator of intelligence?
Hi Sofiechaners.... posted 14mo ago with 8 replies received eugenics superintelligence

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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.... 14mo ago received

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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 1y ago with 31 replies received eugenics

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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.... 14mo ago received

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 14mo ago received

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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 1y ago with 5 replies received accelerationism eugenics

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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... 1y ago received

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Soil and Blood: A Defense of Magical Dirt Theory
Consider the development of a particular man under two different ecosystem inputs.... posted 1y ago with 39 replies received politics eugenics

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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... 1y ago received

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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 1y ago with 2 replies received eugenics

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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 1y ago with 4 replies received eugenics bookclub

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One of my biggest frustrations is that people are quick to seek nutritional advice when nutritional self-experimentation is incredibly easy.... 1y ago received

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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 1y ago with 18 replies received politics eugenics

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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? 1y ago received

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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 1y ago with 22 replies received eugenics

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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... 1y ago received

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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... 1y ago received

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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 1y ago with 5 replies received eugenics

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There was an interesting post related to this and the prospect of a Biosingularity a few weeks back:... 1y ago received

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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 received politics eugenics bookclub

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Really good observations overall.... 1y ago received

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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... 1y ago received

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