Glassnoser
5mo ago
What I don't think is borderline dissident is the idea that smart beautiful women should have at least two kids starting in their mid to late 20s after getting their careers established and finding the right husband or that stupid ugly people should have at most two kids and also wait until they're financially and romantically stable. That is also a positive eugenics position albeit one less extreme and rarely stated explicitly. But I would guess most people agree with it.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
And they probably think it's even more responsible for stupid ugly people to have fewer kids.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
It's not very charitable to Hanson though.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I don't understand what your point is and want to clarify that the video part of your quote is made up and not the kinds of questions he is referring to.
Are you accusing Hsu of having an interest in HBD? If so, based on what?
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I have none. We don't usually celebrate it at all. I'm curious how common this is.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I have been truly shocked by how sensitive some women are. I made one cry once by suggesting (I thought very politely) an alternative to a plan she was forcing on everyone without consulting them.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
What reasonable casus belli did Germany have against Poland?
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Almost everyone thinks this though. It's just one of those things that people generally agree on but people get uncomfortable if you're too explicit about it.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
In person, I've heard a lot of opinions from regular people with normal politics that you would typically only hear from the far-right online. What is considered allowable opinion online, much less the opinions that are typical of young journalists, are not at all typical of most people in the real world.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Here is a Twitter thread listing some of the factual inaccuracies. https://x.com/ohabryka/status/1802563541633024280
Pro-HBD guys like Razib Khan and Stephen Hsu are racist.
Hsu claims no knowledge of cognitive differences between races caused by genetics. Has he said something different elsewhere? https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-controversial-views.html
Glassnoser
5mo ago
I don't see how that's reasonable. He didn't say anything to diminish the perceived severity of rape. He only made an argument about the severity of cuckoldry.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
It's not a good inference because he explicitly states that he isn't trying to argue that rape is less bad.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Where did he argue for the bailey, and what is it?
Glassnoser
5mo ago
It's not misogynistic though.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Wouldn't you have known he was British when you heard his voice?
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Do you mean higher than it used to be?
Trudeau's statement that 'Canada is a postnational state' is indistinguishable from the denial of Canadian sovereignty and is in fact a naked argument for Comintern.
That is a ridiculously huge leap.
If Canadian sovereignty has any reference to the people of Canada, discounting any non-integrated individuals, then it must be the case that Trudeau's statement denies Canadian sovereignty.
Canadian sovereignty doesn't have any reference to the people and even if it did, that wouldn't mean his statement denies Canadian sovereignty.
Thus, the concept of Canadian sovereignty, on his thinking, is "post" the fact of or concerns of the people who inhabit Canada's borders.
This is a clearly incorrect interpretation of his meaning, which is about a lack of mainstream culture, not the lack of concern for the people. He states this explicitly.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
It may affect more people than you think. In many cases, it affects men who later go on to have active sex lives, but this delay means they don't make the most of their youths.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
When has Trudeau opposed Canadian sovereignty?
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Why should they come down in value?
It doesn't help the younger generation of Canadians now if their parents will eventually croak in 25 or 30 years and leave them the house (along with god knows what owed in deferred property tax. Have fun with that, kids! Edit: actually, maybe this is only a BC thing), nor does it help those who can't bank on an inheritance.
Of course it helps them. They don't have to save as much for retirement or their parents can take out a mortgage and provide them with a downpayment. Their grandparents also own property and their parents and grandparents own REITs and rental properties.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
One of the things thay largely discredited Eliezer Yudkowsky in my eyes is when he, only about a year or so ago, said he had been worried about it being too difficult to align AI for it to be safe and hadn't considered that people might just deliberately design unaligned AI. It should have been obvious that this would happen and so the primary concern should always have been what to do about adversarial AI, not how to align AI, which I have never believed would be difficult anyway, and have become less and less concerned about over time.
Glassnoser
5mo ago
Reddit prevents you from commenting too much if you get too many downvotes, and it causes your comments and posts to be autoremoved in many subreddits. Comments are also sorted by scores and comments with significant downvotes are hidden. Personally, I don't care when I find out that a lot of people disagree with me when I know it's because I'm just expressing an unpopular opinion. But I do mind being prevented from participating and I mind that it causes others who with unpopular opinions to leave, which leads to less diversity of opinion and more biased voting. The results speak for themselves. Reddit's famous hivemind results in communities with very little dissent and a sometimes shocking level of agreement on even highly controversial topics, resulting in an artificially narrow Overton window that makes people much less comfortable expressing disagreement.
How can the average Canadian not benefit from higher property values if the vast majority of property is owned by Canadians?
t's generational warfare, and our politicians have picked the side their votes come from.
It's not generational warfare. People are free to give the proceeds of higher property values to their children, and most of them do. It's not the government's fault if some people don't want to help their children. But when the government does intervene and artificially suppresses property values or taxes them to redistribute to the young, a large share of that is redistribution to immigrants or their children. This is the opposite of what the government should do if it wants to help Canadians at the expense of foreigners as so many claim it should.
I have talked to a number of recent immigrants on dating apps, and a huge number are students or recent graduates of a very low ranked local university that I've never even heard of any local going to, and whose student body seems to be about 90% international students. I don't think it's bad enough to be called a diploma mill, but it's not good. It makes me doubt that we're really attracting the brightest people. The standards of the higher ranked universities themselves are dropping. All of these universities have a huge problem with cheating from what I've heard and the lower ranked ones have pretty low standards for passing.
I don't think the immigration rate should take the price of housing into account though. The average Canadian benefits from higher prices. The problem is that cities refuse to allow development. The median voter supports immigration but doesn't want his own neighbourhood to change. And they don't want urban sprawl either. But even if they doesn't happen, the average Canadian is still better off with high property values.
It's perfectly consistent to think that people should have fewer children but that they should be looked after once they're born.
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