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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025

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Mid by what metric, pray tell?

Intelligence, creativity, humour, how good they look after age 30, you name it etc. etc.

True creativity comes through working with constraints imposed like China (be it sanctions or cost pressure or whatever). Unconstrained problems are often underdetermined which means every midwit can find their own "unique" solution which then lets them pretend they are special.

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In case you're banned, I suppose you can't reply to this. But I will have to disagree that whites are mid.

Most of the giants of humanity (Einstein, Tesla, Hawking, any "great person") were white. This is a good marker of intelligence. Asians are better at rote memorization, but that is a very bad marker of higher intelligence, and it's mostly a result of spending 40% more hours studying on average.

I will have to disagree with creativity too when it means "originality" due to the collectivist nature of Asia. If you mean "artistic skills" however, I will have to agree with you, asians win.

Working with constraints results in creativity for everyone. There's a reason why writers block mostly occur as a result of a blank page. This is how the human mind works, and it's merely a coincidence that the Chinese are more restrained at the moment.

As for "How good the look after age 30", I mostly agree, but it doesn't seem very related to other metrics.

Most of the giants of humanity (Einstein, Tesla, Hawking, any "great person") were white

Classifying Einstein as white is somewhat controversial (at least around these sorts of places)

I see, I just went by skincolor. If possible, I don't want to overcomplicate things by taking "jews are in a super-position of white and non-white, collapsing to the state which benefits them the most at any given time" seriously. Genetically they might be a little different, though, I'm even open to the idea that jews are objectively superior in some sense (e.g. often intelligent), but I think they're also inferior in others. The use of deception is an indicator that one has difficulties competing fairly, after all.

Despite being white I don't care that much if another race is "superior" though, the only hill I'm willing to die on is that "mid" is too harsh an assessment

route memorization

I assume you mean 'rote memorization'. Unless there's studies about Chinese pathfinding ability.

Oops, yeah, thanks! But if you use the Method of Loci, you can technically have both!

Okay, now I see you were joking, good thing I decided to check before sperging out with a serious rebuttal