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Gradually supplanting the natural with the just / Me against the rats, me and the rats against the postrats, me, the rats and the postrats against the world

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Joined July 2015
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@SilverVVulpes
Siberian fox
8 years
A girl socially educated to believe in genetic determinism and a guy with a mutation that makes him a social constructionist walk into a bar
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@SilverVVulpes
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so what you are saying is, Century Fox is now Disney which means the Alien franchise is now Disney which means Xenomorphs, being born from the Xenomorph Queen, are now Disney princesses
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CNBC
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BREAKING: Walt Disney Co. & 21st Century Fox closing in on deal that could come as soon as next week; enterprise value for 21st Century Fox assets seen above $60 billion - sources
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@SilverVVulpes
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you will live to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension
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German serial killer lured online 'coomers' "Sarah (19) has been standing trial at the Bamberg district court since Friday. Prosecutor is convinced: the teenager lured admirers into a trap with the promise of quick sex and stabbed them in cold blood."
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physics: if your correlation is lower .96 that's noisy and I worry whether you truly understand what's going on social science: "people prefer to bang hot people in one night stands" is a .63 correlation
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Alexander
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Here is the correlation between short-term mate desirability and ratings of physical attractiveness from our recent survey. This is .63 and for long-term mate desirability was .55. We tend to think of a desire for physical attractiveness as a short-term mating preference (and we
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I still remember that post when a zoomer watched The Matrix and was like "huh, curious. this movie plays everything straight, takes itself seriously, no quips here. is this how movies were in the before times" and I remember because I withered away and a ghost is typing this
@nodrectionhome
Cian 🇮🇪
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i hate how irony poisoned everything has become. romcoms can't take themselves seriously, action movies have to have silly one liners acknowledging how ridiculous everything is, everything has to be meta and self referential... i'm sick of it!
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Please remember to put feline armor on your cat if you're carrying it to war RT, pls
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I'm just sayin', everyone that confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead.
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Before thermometers: philosophers mocked the idea of temperature ever being measurable, with all its nuance, complexity and subjectivity
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this is the ideal bayesian updater on every tiny new tweet w new info about the LK-99 story. you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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replies and quotetweets here making me really skeptical hybristophilia is as heterosexual female lopsided as commonly made out to be
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that's how everything with color works
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@SilverVVulpes
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"hahaha universal evolution towards CRAB is just a meme"
@curious_archive
Curious Archive
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Sea Robins have evolved 6 crab-like limbs that let them walk on the seafloor. These 'legs' evolved from support structures in the pectoral fins. No matter how many times I see this, it never looks real.
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great to know someone is taking efforts to undo the damage
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reminder: cuteness isn't 'cute', it's a sensory hacking adaptation and it's brutal
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People claimed the human brain was special relative to other primates in the size of the temporal lobes, involved in functions such as language. Newer data once again shows that no, the human brain is just a scaled up primate brain
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me: fuck, bug in a library I'm not familiar with. Let's see if ChatGPT has the solution for m- OpenAI: Hey thanks so much for reaching out" I’m actually at capacity / helping someone else / dealing with some personal stuff rn and i don’t think I can hold appropriate space for y
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This sucks. When people told me everything in academia work takes longer than you think, I didn't imagine it meant that it takes longer than you think after adjusting for the fact that everything takes longer than you think
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I think this tweet has literally the only graph I've ever seen on my life that doesn't exaggerate the effect
@nuance_enjoyer
nuance enjoyer
1 month
We often see hypothetical IQ distributions of men and women like this, but what does it look like using actual test data? Men's greater variability doesn't look quite as stark, though there was a significant 1.1 variance ratio.
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@SilverVVulpes
Siberian fox
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good news everyone! the most discomforting parts of pop pysch keep surviving the replication crisis
@DegenRolf
Rolf Degen
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Landmark psychology experiment that indicated how easy it is to plant false memories in people's minds about getting lost in a shopping mall as a child passes the replication test with flying colors.
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@connerdelights in social science it is
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@BenWiddowson69 no it's okay you have to be in the spooky business of 'needing statistics' to really get the exchange and the problem
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The next Kingdom Hearts is gonna own
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>sex differences in math cognition disappear once you adjust for differences in how women and men think
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Siberian fox
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A mysterious ex-Big Tobacco employee just told me about how people sometimes thought the warnings you get on the cigarette boxes actually correlate to the damage that specific pack of cigarettes do. Like a man would ask for the harm in pregnancy one, assuming he was immune
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@SilverVVulpes
Siberian fox
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PHRASING
@SkyNews
Sky News
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UK nuclear warhead maintenance staff to vote on strikes
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Good afternoon. This is figure 1 of a paper
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Daily reminder that Newton did everything he did with physics as a side hobby to his truly important focus in theology and alchemy
@fermatslibrary
Fermat's Library
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Here's a category breakdown of the 1752 books found in Newton’s personal library after his death.
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@SilverVVulpes
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Vox and their explainers have now antagonized the poor people in the Hyena Project. When will their evil stop
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@turrible_tao @LokiJulianus it's still cursed we search for 'examples'. it should be a tag like in fanfic sites, except quipfest people should be the ones labeling their stuff with warnings as if it was distasteful smut and let NORMAL AMERICANS watch things in peace
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this is what evolutionary psychologists actually believe
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If the human brain was so simple we could understand it, it'd be instantly eaten away by parasites
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So, apparently, during all the Lola Bunny discourse, some people managed to slip a later fanart made by a horny furry in deviantart as if it was part of the Space Jam film. Just the cherry on top in this episode of The Discourse, really. I love this website so much
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"no you see, you have to take into account every genetic variant is highly sensitive with interactions with the environment, and you can't forget epistatic interactions with the w-" agriculture scientists: we put a gene that makes you fat on rice and potatoes and they got fatter
@BjornLomborg
Bjorn Lomborg
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Yields up 50%! Adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice and potato plants increased their yield by 50% in field tests "it worked with almost every type of plant we tried it with so far" Amazing!
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On the other hand the kind of person that reads Nietzsche to their 5 year old probably is giving birth to children that are strongly predisposed to be very smart and also insane
@TheEconomist
The Economist
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People’s IQs are fixed throughout their life. Reading Nietzsche to your five-year-old cannot “make” a genius From @1843mag
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@SilverVVulpes
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Cancer cells grow nanotubes they use to absorb the mitochondria from immune cells like fucking vampires
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New generations smart enough to realize shiny rocks aren't worth that much money
@TheEconomist
The Economist
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Why aren't millennials buying diamonds?
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For the standards of someone in the 1400s, the printing press did in fact destroy society
@AnonDehlvi
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Fwiw, this looks exactly like counter reformation (the printing press will destroy society) or even early 20th cent push back on reading radio. No, it will not destroy democracy. Yes it will reinvent society (nationalism was a consequence of the news and radio)
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@Deermeohmy not that I necessarily disagree, this is making fun at the twitter exchange, not the blogpost!
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3 years
'pewdiepie shows more critical thinking skills and educates his audience better than the gov and army of the united states of america' added to the long list of statements that would have surprised me in 2019 but not anymore
@erikphoel
Erik Hoel
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I asked "where are the adults?" in my essay on the new UFO craze. Well, I guess the adult is Pewdiepie, who does an amazing debunking video for his fans, and shows far more clear-headedness than plenty of our public intellectuals have on this issue
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I really, really can't wait until oral semaglutide is over the counter. The seethe online is going to be insane and simply feed me
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I know this is probably a lie (an attractive woman that dislikes communists saying this in visual media to try to cause them mating anxiety) because there's no way in hell a communist would shut up about politics for 5 years, no matter the potential fitness benefits
@nikicaga
Nikolaj🍦🇺🇦
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How do you date someone for 5 years before you find out their political leanings lol
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In this post, Robin Hanson says that arranged marriages make folks "at least as happy" as freely chosen marriages. his citation is a paper from India with 30 people in each group, where, actually, love married couples were significantly more satisfied
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Matty deleted all of this tweets again and I'm not sure if it was over this :(
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@BDSixsmith "A baby is approaching our family"
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@BenWiddowson69 oh the guy with two tweets the stuff he links is so unrelated to his graph/the other guy's question it makes obvious he has no idea what he's talking about
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Math teachers back in the day told you to learn their stuff because you're not going to always carry a calculator in your pocket, soon programming teachers will tell you to actually learn how to code because Assistant isn't going to be online 24/7
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wait I thought Stancil was the non racist side of the debate
@whstancil
Will Stancil
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People who have been to Italy or Seoul or wherever will notice that while the food is often good, it’s generally EXACTLY THE SAME across most options.
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Siberian fox
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Eliezer: In my blogging I invented the AI smart enough to persuade you to break it out of the box as a cautionary tale Some dudes: at long last,
@TheDecoderEN
THE DECODER - EVERYTHING AI
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👉 ChaosGPT is an Auto-GPT variant with the mission to destroy humanity.
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Siberian fox
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so that's 2-0
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allow me to translate a bit from here just for fun: López Obrador (Mexico PM) requested Spain apologize for colonialism The group that most sees it as necesary, helps an historic debt: white Mexicans The group that most sees it as unnecesary, irrelevant: Indigenous people
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EL PAÍS México
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Te invitamos a leer en 'Un 62% de los mexicanos creen que López Obrador utiliza la conquista para hacer política' 🖋️ @JorgeGalindo HILO🧵: @Lili_siete #Suscr íbeteALosHechos
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they are no longer doing what
@engadget
Engadget
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US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches
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@tszzl This technology would at the very least be an emotional whiplash and be bittersweet. Part of maturing to adulthood is watching family and friends die and coming to terms with your own mortality, and for that to no longer be an inevitability is even more tragic for those gone.
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