Posts with Comments by onetwothree

Surfwise on Netflix

  • Could not get through 10 minutes of that.
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. interviews James Watson

  • Had to stop reading almost immediately. Presumably, his confession ended with his execution by a pack of trained dogs.
  • Male preferences and debunking myths about the evolution of the female form

  • The different fundamental forces are partly distinguished by their different effects at different distances. I would suggest that the buttocks are like gravity--quite attractive at great distances. Breasts, like nuclear forces, are extremely powerful at near distances. (*Quite* unlike the buttocks, I might add.) 
     
    It depends upon what effect is desired. A woman who wants to attract far and wide will use her rear. A woman who wants to attract close and strong uses her breasts.
  • The Archbishop Speaks

  • Bleh. Anything but a categorical rejection of a law derived from foreign dogma should result in an official religious leader surrendering his post.
  • Super Tuesday

  • Err, Sailer's commentary has mostly described Obama's dabbling in black nationalism.
  • I said "Ron Paul" for fun, but if it was a close race between madman McCain and Romney, I would unquestionably vote for Romney. So the answer is, "It depends".
  • EDAR controls hair thickness

  • Interesting. Asians have the thickest hair.
  • No sympathy for statistics

  • I've heard it suggested that Bill Gates will have better luck helping Africa than other do-gooders because he's been taking a typically nerdy analytical approach to the problem.
  • Finns & tango

  • That was a slanty-mouthed smiley. Didn't come through: :-\
  • Not a looker among 'em. 
     
    :-
  • Then and now

  • The events in those little communities suggests an answer to the question: Why do polygamous practices not have a eugenic effect? (They should: As multiple women would seemingly share superior men.) But the men aren't selected on a meritorious basis by women, but that of unthinking allegience by other men.
  • The end of farming?

  • Agricultural societies tend to wipe out hunter-gatherer societies in unholy bloodbaths, despite nutrional differences. But we've got the best of both worlds now.
  • Nerds

  • Oh, there's no categorizing those lovable nerds: 
     
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=tZql71eOGO8 
     
    Besides, the standard text has already been written: 
     
    www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
  • In the name of a word

  • All it would take is a modest correlation between an "identify" (of whatever sort) and genes. Your term "other Germans" is losing some important facts in the limited abstraction "German". It's an important accident that culture and race follow one another around.
  • "Religion" is "race" prior to race theory perhaps? There is a pretty strong correlation between Hindu:Indian::Protestant:Nordic::Jew:Jew::Buddhist:East Asian, etc. It works out about the same, and surely did back in the old days. Every identifying badge that you get is gotten about the same time as your DNA...
  • Darwin pedantry

  • "Essentially" is a perfectly acceptable weasel word. For instance, we are all essentially gobs of goo with hair stuck up on top.
  • Profile of Terence Tao

  • Oh, geez. Can he solve the problem of there not being any robots that can wash dishes and give backrubs? Seriously. No: Because you know the guy who eventually does that is going to have an IQ in the 135-140 range.
  • Pro forma hand wringing?

  • Discussions like this sometimes contain a badly misused word "perfect". We're not going to get perfect _anything_ from such technology. At best, you'll remove defects and up IQ by a few points. What you're really going to get is a human-equivilent of people's general taste in things, ie, Thomas Kinkade. 
     
    Still be an improvement, though.
  • My Wikiddiction

  • Get into the habit of editing it, and there goes your whole life.
  • The Pig Men Cometh

  • Diana, 
     
    I've known people who lived in New Orleans, had been mugged several times, had burglaries, etc, and still had fond memories of the people. This is why society has gone from human recollection to careful measurement. 
     
    On the other hand, a public school curiculum could probably be mastered by anybody better-than-idiotic. And so, with the liberal use of the school paddle, I'm sure any race can learn/behave.
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