Friday, June 1, 2018

Pinker's Hair looks like Pasta

From the web:

1. 709 genes found associated with intelligence

2. All we've done is cure contagious diseases. Scary if true.



3. Can things be both Popular and Silenced? Scott Alexander on the IDW

4. Is there any other way?



5. A Texas Teacher is in trouble because she showed students a picture of her wife. Free Speech issue?

6. The long awaited conversation between Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson has low video/sound quality, interruptions, cuts, and delightfully pleasant conversation.


7. Study: Learning Others’ Political Views Reduces the Ability to Assess and Use Their Expertise in Nonpolitical Domains

8. Everything is Awesome and Nobody is Happy. From HumanProgress.org:
"When surveyed, only 1% of people correctly answered that world poverty decreased by 50% over the last two decades. There were five options in the survey. A random guess would do 20 times as well as a human at getting the right answer."
9. "Women are still
-routinely subjected to domestic violence in their homes,
-sexual harassment in their workplaces,
-gender bias at their schools."
From article, Jordan Peterson Does Not Support Equality of Opportunity

10. "Klein purports to channel the views of this group when he describes their putative belief that “this is my experience and you don’t understand it.” Klein apparently knows what they think even without asking them."

From article, Why Sam Harris—Not Ezra Klein—Is the One Making Space for People of Colour

11. Meta-analysis shows vitamin supplements might do a little good, might do a little bad, and overall probably pretty useless.

12. The dumbest thing Batman has said, even dumber than "chicks dig the car"?

13. Cognitive Strain Quote of the Week:
"To the extent that we are rational we share the same identity." -Rebecca Goldstein
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