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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 1d ago with no replies received eugenics gnon nietzsche

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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... 3d 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 1mo ago with 9 replies received eugenics funposting

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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... 2w 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 3w ago with 7 replies received eugenics accelerationism

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Of course “naturalist” is the correct term for a sensible scientific civilization that integrates the lessons of evolution and industry and astrophysics into its being without superstitious attachments.... 2w ago received

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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 2mo 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.”... 2mo 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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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 2mo 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 13mo ago with 6 replies received ideology eugenics

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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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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 13mo ago with 18 replies received eugenics news

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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 sociology

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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 5mo ago with 5 replies received eugenics gnon

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It's self-organization that's the magic of life, not reason or intelligence.... 5mo 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 sociology

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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... 10mo ago received

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Are foldy ears an indicator of intelligence?
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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.... 13mo 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 health

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 13mo 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 14mo ago with 5 replies received eugenics accelerationism

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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... 14mo 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 sociology

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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 funposting

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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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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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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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