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this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I don't even know what to say here. Cool scam I guess
https://xcancel.com/herasight/status/2057888072092856823
A bit tangental but I found a book review about a professor wrote pushing similar "polygenic" nonsense: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/06/11/not-in-your-genome-the-social-genome-conley/
It looks like Herasight cites some of his nonsense in at least one of their garbage papers.
Thanks for the link, interesting read.
How does one give an embryo an IQ test.
With a pencil and paper, obviously. Getting it inside the uterus is the hard part, tho
You give them a marshmellow and promise them another one if they don't eat the first one inside 2 minutes.
Usually kids pass this test when the are around 3 yo, so if the embryo passes they are so far ahead developmentally they will grow up to become a god.
Or something like that. IDK...
Very carefully
Chicken entrails
Big syringe
cup full of dice
Most leading Rationalists are autistic, but many of them are in denial. Many are Jewish or have Jewish parents. You can debate which kind of folly let them embrace eugenics and white supremacism: are they brain-proud and desperate to believe that they were destined from birth to rule? Sure that they just have eccentric Ashkenazi genius genes not inferior Autistic genes? Naive that the deportations would stop with black and brown people? Their favourite Catholic fantasy author had some warnings for them.