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[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 15 points 2 days ago
[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the link, interesting read.

[-] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 18 points 2 days ago

How does one give an embryo an IQ test.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Very carefully

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Chicken entrails

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 18 points 2 days ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

cup full of dice

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

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.

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